"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing."
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."
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"It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant."
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"The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch."
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
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"They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!"
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"In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons."
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"All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be."
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"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
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"I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life."
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"It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable."
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"To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die."
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"Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes."
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"An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected."
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"Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?"
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"Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly."
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"I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest."
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"I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect."
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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
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