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“People with dark hearts have dark dreams. Those whose hearts are even darker can’t dream at all.”
Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it.
A gulf separates what we attempt to perceive from what we are actually able to perceive.
Pure art exists only in slave-owning societies.
The Greeks had slaves to till their fields, prepare their meals, and row their galleys while they lay about on sun-splashed Mediterranean beaches, composing poems and grappling with mathematical equations. That’s what art is.
If you’re the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o’clock in the morning, ...
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‘The test of a first-rate intelligence is its ability to function while holding two opposite ideas at the same time’?”
A cosmic wanderer, he has wearied of the vastness of outer space and desires only to die an anonymous death.
Her arms tightened again around my back. I could feel her breasts pressing against the pit of my stomach. I was dying for a beer.
All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.
She vanished without a trace, swept away by the flow of time and its flood of people.
There were only three things that he liked, namely, guns, cats, and his mother’s cookies.
How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night?
“Hey, here’s something someone once told me: Walk slowly, and drink lots of water.”
