"Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
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"If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier."
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"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed."
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"I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out."
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"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."
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"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
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"I desire the things that will destroy me in the end."
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"Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
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"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell."
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"Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is."
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"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those."
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"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant loosing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet."
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"Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow."
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"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
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"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
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"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."
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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
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"When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever."
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