“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).”
― POPism: The Warhol Sixties
― POPism: The Warhol Sixties
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