But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
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Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
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Me, what's that after all An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off, I begin, and vice versa.
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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