Keep things at arm's length. If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

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Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgotten, sunk, drowned. Nothing was sure - not even memory.

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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

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With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

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We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

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Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect. Erich Maria Remarque

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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

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