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I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.

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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

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Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

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I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

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Not all the monsters have fangs.

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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

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A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.

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Strength is an empty shell.

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To be able to forget means sanity.

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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

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Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

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