"I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour."
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"My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked."
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"I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange."
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"I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields, no - in the hospitals ... there I mixed with it: and now I say God damn the wars - allw ars: God damn every war: God damn 'em! God damn 'em!"
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"One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
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"There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die."
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"I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!"
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"The moment I saw her again, I knew that it's gonna be more fun to live my life now."
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"When I first saw you, I saw love. from You're Still The One"
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"When the surgeon general Joycelyn Elders said that drugs should be legalized, I saw somebody else who felt what I feel. But she got fired."
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"What I saw over all that time were so many deals disappearing and producers disappearing, fewer movies getting made, and it just being a bit more difficult. Working with Joel, we were in a bit of a bubble because he was always making things that were working for the studio and that kind of thing. We were always in production on something."
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"I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom."
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"The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true."
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"I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope."
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"I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off."
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"Whenever someone dies, a part of the universe dies too. Everything a person felt, experience and saw dies with them, like tears in the rain."
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"I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them."
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"When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me."
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"Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog."
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"From there we came outside and saw the stars"
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