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“Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven. The one thing we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experiences (though we hate to admit it) in death.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.”
― Mohawk
― Mohawk
“Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawing is the transition from plant back to animal, from painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”
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“I remembered a long time ago when I lay in bed beside my mother, watching lights from the street move across the ceiling and down the walls. I felt the sharp nostalgia of train whistles, piano music down a city street, burning leaves. A mild degree of junk sickness always brought me the magic of childhood.”
― Junky
― Junky
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