“You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
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“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
― The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
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