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Tropic of Cancer (1934)
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
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I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.
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An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Still prowling around. Mid-afternoon. Guts rattling. Beginning to rain now. Notre-Dame rises tomb-like from the water. The gargoyles lean far out over the lace facade. They hang there like an idée fixe in the mind of a monomaniac. An old man with yellow whiskers approaches me. Has some Jaworski nonsense in his hand. Comes up to me with his head thrown back and the rain splashing in his face turns the golden sands to mud.
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Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert.
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I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy & willing to die.
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This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.
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I made up my mind that I would hold on to nothing, that I would expect nothing, that henceforth I would live as an animal, a beast of prey, a rover, a plunderer.
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For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood.
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For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.
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I knew I wouldn't ever trade all this whirling about my head for Russia or heaven or anything on earth.
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Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
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All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Born:
December 26, 1891
Died:
June 7, 1980
(aged 88)
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