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What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?


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But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.



Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.



My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!



Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.



I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.



They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now



There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.



I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.



Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.



Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.





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What the hell are you doing here? You weren't on the guest list. Hell, you people aren't on anybody's guest list. If you turned up at a funeral, the corpse would walk out on you.

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These past two days, I’ve seen a fire in your eyes that I never have before. Granted, it’s mostly anger and frustration, but it’s still emotion.

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It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"



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I remember Tetro was a big deal to me at that time. It was going from zero to one: Never having been in a movie, a person who had no relationship to any of that, and that was my first movie.



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There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.



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Be patient. Be confident in yourself. Anything can happen if you really work at it. Never give up. It‘s corny, but never give up.



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