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When these long telephone silences come, it is a sure sign that love is over.
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But if there's nothing wrong with me, he thought, then there is something wrong with the world. And if there is nothing wrong with the world, then I have wasted my life and that is the worst mistake of all.
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Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure?
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Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.
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I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand.
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....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why couldn’t anyone do anything he or she wished, given the tools and the time.
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This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
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What nuns don’t realize is that they look better in nun clothes than in J. C. Penney pantsuits.
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In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the dead, or putting on masks at Mardi Gras so nobody knows who they are.
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The drowsiness returns. It is unwelcome. I recognize it as the sort of fitful twilight which has come over me of late, a twilight where waking dreams are dreamed and sleep never comes.
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What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.
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Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years.
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The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.
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In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement.
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
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...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
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But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the right new place, I can become a new person--places a heavy burden on travel.
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People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
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A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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...this miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
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I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.
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Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr.
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At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.
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During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing, in fact, that I learned in the entire four years.
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The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
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I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
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Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
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It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
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Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
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In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.
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There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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