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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.

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Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation.
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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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I’m good at reading people.
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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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Seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.
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