Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

God created all people.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.

Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

The most important part of this is to prepare the athlete for life in general and then be able to compete.

I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

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