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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 2nd, 1924

Died: December 1st, 1987

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