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“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”
― Women
― Women
“Beauty is like drink or comfort, once you get used to it, you stop paying attention.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd. It’s the nightmare of having to represent the halt subhuman we were fobbed off with as a small-size universal ideal, a superman from morning to night.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“Everything that’s important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone’s real inside story.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow, to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
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