I had a brief glimpse of a frail, mature man carrying a ravaged child in his arms...
("The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
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Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?
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If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that's like thinking that dessing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian.
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I am a complete slave to vocabulary, I ought to have named my cat Roget.
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But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune.
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When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
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