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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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One lives but once in the world.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
— Paul Gauguin
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How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point…
— Kenneth Tynan
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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
— Louis L'Amour
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I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well.…
— Jackie Kennedy
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In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way…
— Mary Ruefle
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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days…
— Harold Bloom
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One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
— Gustave Courbet
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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
— Lope de Vega
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The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will…
— James Frey
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
— Mircea Eliade
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