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"Then he jumped.. I owe him so much. I needed him. I still do. But he's gone. He told me once that I shouldn't make people into heroes. He said that heroes didn't exist and that even if they did he wouldn't be one of them, which goes to show. he wasn't right about everything."
"If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one of them is stolen, he's going to perish."
"Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone."
"When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once."
"That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!"
"I am too far gone to be rehabilitated."
"It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone."
"As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone."
"Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under."
"It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself."
"This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man."
"Gone. Vanished. Nothing left. Nothing said."
"Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive."
"I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough."
"What are you doing now?” Al questioned, listing heavily as he tucked another one of those bottles under his arm and staggered for the cot half hidden behind a curtain. “Seeing if your circumcision is gone? It is."
"We were innocent once. How could it have gone so bad?"
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone."
"For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature is in no way privileged."
"Brilliant landing.. We´re trying to keep a low profile, and here you´ve gone and made it look like a meteorite hit."
"It was really impulsive. I was just like, I'm cutting it! And then it was just all gone."
