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The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.
“— for he was young now as he would never be again, and more triumphant than death.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Oh, he was a pretentious fool, making careers out of cocktails and meanwhile regretting, weakly and secretly, the collapse of an insufficient and wretched idealism. He had garnished his soul in the subtlest taste and now he longed for the old rubbish. He was empty, it seemed, empty as an old bottle —”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses—bound for dust—mortal—”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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