Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

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What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

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The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

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I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

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I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.

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Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

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All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

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Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

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In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

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Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

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