Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
("Ulysses")
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A wave of yet more tender joy escaped from his heart, and went coursing in warm flood along his arteries. Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of, or would ever know of, broke upon and illumined his memory..
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
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I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
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The snot green sea. The scrotum tightening sea.
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