Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.Harold Brodkey
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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