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“Ik voel me vandaag beroerd. Maar laat ons om ons heen zien. Sommige mensen worden reeds bij het begin van hun leven zwaar gestraft: zij worden als vrouw geboren.”
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“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
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“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Runaway Horses
― Runaway Horses
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