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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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All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.
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.
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
