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“Forget pleasure and Ambition”
― The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
― The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
“Hate can be just as intimate as love.”
― Save Yourself
― Save Yourself
“إذ لم يكن من المرغوب فيه أن يكون لدى عامة الشعب وعي سياسي قوي , فكل ما هو مطلوب منهم وطنية بدائية يمكن اللجوء إليها حينما يستلزم الأمر.”
― 1984
― 1984
“That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying,”
― The Grifters
― The Grifters
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass. I rediscover indifference (allowing her to leave me) when I fall asleep, through an inability to love what happens. It is impossible for her to know whom she will discover when I hold her, because she obstinately attains a complete forgetting.”
― The Solar Anus
― The Solar Anus
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