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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the…
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most…
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I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one…
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If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the…
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I often thought men stank of rage; it is why I preferred women, and homosexuals.
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God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and…
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My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.
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The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore…
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that…
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the…
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They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.
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Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never…
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Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
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Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
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Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you.
— Jean Patou
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No matter what the situation, winning takes care of a lot of stuff. Things are never perfect, even when you win. But…
— Mike Quade
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
— Victoria Azarenka
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As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters.…
— James Badge Dale
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
— Jules Verne
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The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are…
— Tim Ferriss
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As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended,…
— Robert Genn
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