“Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.”
― This Perfect Day
― This Perfect Day
“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their funny money.”
― New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
― New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
“I heard the universe laugh. One tragedy doesn't disqualify you, it said. There''s still a lifetime of mild irritation to look forward to.”
― The Truth About Keeping Secrets
― The Truth About Keeping Secrets
“The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge or of a strong, firmly rooted delusion; even to imagine
such a state of things is painful to us! Restless discovering and divining has such an attraction for us, and has grown as indispensable to us as is to the lover his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference – perhaps,
indeed, we too are unrequited lovers.”
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
such a state of things is painful to us! Restless discovering and divining has such an attraction for us, and has grown as indispensable to us as is to the lover his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference – perhaps,
indeed, we too are unrequited lovers.”
― Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
“A false-hearted lover is worse than a thief.
For a thief will just rob you and take what you have,
But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave.
And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust;
Not one boy in a hundred a poor girl can trust.”
― A Kiss Before Dying
For a thief will just rob you and take what you have,
But a false-hearted lover will lead you to the grave.
And the grave will decay you and turn you to dust;
Not one boy in a hundred a poor girl can trust.”
― A Kiss Before Dying
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