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Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?


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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.



Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.



Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?



The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.

The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere.



Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.



I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers -- all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground.



We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.



She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.

She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked.



The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.

The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt.



...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.





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