It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

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Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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