"I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion."
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"…'It always has to end, doesn't it? We always have to separate.' 'Yes,' I said. He was insistent, 'But it doesn't always have to be that way. We could be together some day for always.' 'Oh, no,' I told him, wondering if he knew it was all over. 'We keep running till we die. We separate, get further apart, till we are dead."
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"Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like."
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"I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything."
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"I do not know who I am tonight."
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"Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses."
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"I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love."
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"I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him."
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"There was a beautiful time."
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"I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more"
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"I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did."
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"I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living."
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"What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul."
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"I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with."
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"I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill."
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"At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do."
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"Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people."
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"God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis."
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"Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey."
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"A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. . . . My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it."
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