
“You're born. You live. You go on some diets. You die.”
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“We too are so dazzled by power and money as to forget our essential fragility, forget that all of us our in the ghetto, that the ghetto is fenced in, that beyond the fence stands the lords of death, and not far away the train is waiting.”
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“Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.”
― A Walk on the Wild Side
― A Walk on the Wild Side

“Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.”
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“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― On Suicide
― On Suicide
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