You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

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The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.

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I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

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There's no tyrant like a brain.

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An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

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All in all, death is something like marriage.

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I piss on you all from a considerable height.

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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

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The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

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