| 1. "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night" | 2. "Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach." | 3. "When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous." | 4. "I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to." | 5. "Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion." |
| 6. "It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out." | 7. "Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time." | 8. "Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it." | 9. "The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." | 10. "I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life." |
| 11. "Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable." | 12. "Beware: for I am fearless, and therefore powerful." | 13. "If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets." | 14. "I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it." | 15. "But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see." |
| 16. "I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place." | 17. "All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad." | 18. "What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me." | 19. "Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe." | 20. "She's the sort of woman who lives for others--you can tell the others by their haunted expression." |
| 21. "The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive." | 22. "Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream--whatever the dream might be." | 23. "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down." | 24. "One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile." | 25. "There is no final one; revolutions are infinite." |
| 26. "One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving." | 27. "One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends." | 28. "To love would be an awfully big adventure." | 29. "No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart." | 30. "The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain." |
| 31. "Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd like to give each a black eye." | 32. "No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." | 33. "Beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation." | 34. "The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me." | 35. "Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past." |
| 36. "If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary." | 37. "All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are." | 38. "People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept." | 39. "Accept who you are; and revel in it." | 40. "Your first kiss is destiny knocking." |
| 41. "But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!" | 42. "You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad." | 43. "Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is." | 44. "I am infinitely strange to myself." | 45. "It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." |
| 46. "I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?" | 47. "Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing." | 48. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found." | 49. "I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd." | 50. "The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces." |
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