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It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
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We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.
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The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
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But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
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One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
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He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.
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I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
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My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
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I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
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That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
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We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.
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If you have only one life you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.
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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
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We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
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Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.
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I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
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The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
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I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
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You put your camera around your neck in the morning, along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorothea Lange
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April 20, 1953
(age 69)
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