His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

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Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

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You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.

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Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

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I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

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I am not the we of anyone.

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When all else fails, philosophize.

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.

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