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"I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often."
"There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little."
"Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped."
"I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?"
"Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one."
"I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love."
"I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me."
"Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist."
"one more creature dizzy with love"
"You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other."
"An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing."
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it"
"The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh."
"I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend."
"there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space."
"I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love."
"I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me."
"You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it."
"Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art"
"In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."