"A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness."
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"the history of melancholia includes all of us."
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"she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind."
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"Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die."
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"But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there."
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"Love is a Dog from Hell."
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"nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all."
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"as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is."
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"Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?"
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"There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do."
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"I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect."
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"I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me."
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"I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't."
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"But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."
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"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone."
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"Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS"
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"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
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"Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful."
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"I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables."
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"and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?"
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