She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.
("Journey to the End of the Night")
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A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that's him, our master. Come, kiss me.
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The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!
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