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“I had to get out of there for my face showed too much, the war in my body was dragging me down. My feet refused to carry me over to him again. The wind of my life was blowing me away.”

Book:Giovanni’s Room

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“I'm looking at all this and I'm thinking that one day I won't be here to see it and I know I'll miss it, even if I won't have a heartbeat to miss anything. I miss it now for the-days-when, the way I miss places I've never traveled to or things I've never done." "What things have you never done?" "You're young and you're very handsome—how could you possibly understand?" He removed his arm. He lived in a future that wouldn't be his to live in and longed for a past that hadn't been his either. There was no turning back and no going forward. I felt for him.”

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Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

“There are too many ways to drown even if you don’t want to drown.”

Sad Thoughtful Drowning

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I took up the letter. On seeing the first line I knew it directly, but could not hold back from reading the whole thing, not once but many times, for it was the only love letter I had received in my life.”

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Book:As meat loves salt

Source: As meat loves salt

“Our star life, yours with mine. As someone said over dinner once, each of us is given at least nine versions of our lives, some we guzzle, others we take tiny, timid sips from, and some our lips never touch.”

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Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

“On each piece of paper I found addresses, telephone numbers, memos of various rendezvous made and kept—or perhaps not kept—people met and remembered, or perhaps not remembered, hopes probably not fulfilled: certainly not fulfilled, or I would not have been standing on that street corner.”

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Book:Giovanni’s Room

Source: Giovanni’s Room

“By contrast, what did I have to offer? Nothing really. Less now. I was more like a curious stone that is picked up, carried a while, and finally dropped again with the realization that for all its interesting look, it is nothing more than hardened earth.”

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Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“despite all the negative press covfefe”

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Author:Donald J. Trump

“It was one of those imponderables of existence that months, even years, can go by without anything significant happening, and then suddenly a cluster of hours comes along or even minutes, that can blow a hole in time a mile wide”

Life Sad

Book:The Dark Fields

Source: The Dark Fields

“How can we ever bring ourselves to make love again, I thought, if we can speak of our love only by oblique reference to death?”

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Book:Enigma Variations

Source: Enigma Variations

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