Divorce transforms habit into drama.
AL ALVAREZI absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it’s funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.
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Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights.
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I’m good at reading people.
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Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist.
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The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.
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No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.
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He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.
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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it’s a kind of risky trade.
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in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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When you make a bet, you’re saying something.
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I absolutely don’t believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck.
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