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Its easy to have frends if you let pepul laff at you. Im going to have lots of frends where I go. PPS. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the back yard.

Men set out on their way in express trains, but they do not know what they are looking for. Then they rush about, and get excited, and turn round and round. It is not worth the trouble

Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

It’s impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many. But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you’ve made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman.

Loro crederanno di pensare, avranno l'impressione del movimento anche se non si muovono affatto. E tutti saranno felici perché i fatti di quel genere non cambiano. Non dargli armi sdrucciolevoli come filosofia, sociologia o altri strumenti per collegare le cose, perché è là che si annida la malinconia. Chiunque sappia smontare una parete TV e ricostruirla, cosa che oggi la maggior parte degli uomini sa fare, è più felice di chi cerca di calcolare e risolvere l'universo, che naturalmente rifiuta di farsi calcolare e risolvere senza aver prima trasformato l'uomo in una belva disadattata. Lo so perché ci ho provato, ma adesso ne ho abbastanza. Meglio frequentare i club e qualche festa, tenersi gli acrobati e i maghi del circo, gli spericolati e le macchine a reazione; meglio fare un giro sui moto-elicotteri e concedersi un po' di sesso con eroina, insomma tutto quello che puoi ottenere con un riflesso automatico. Se la tragedia è cattiva, se il film non dice niente, se la commedia è vuota, dammi una scossa con la musica elettronica, con un Theremin al massimo volume: crederò che la commedia mi abbia dato un brivido, mentre è soltanto una risposta fisica alle vibrazioni. In realtà non m'interessa affatto, ma mi piace guardare uno spettacolo. Uno qualunque.

¡Que extraña cosa el conocimiento!. Una vez que ha penetrado en la mente, se aferra a ella como la hiedra a la roca.

Cada persona se cree dueña de al menos una de las virtudes cardinales, y ésta era la mía: soy una de las pocas personas honestas que conozco.

A todos nos gusta dar lecciones, pero sólo enseñamos lo que no merece la pena saber. Perdóname,

If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similiar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possinle of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.

Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up to my pores during the day, and at night - in the moments before I pass off into sleep - ideas explode into my head like fireworks.

O that a man might know      The end of this day’s business ere it come!      But it sufficeth that the day will end,      And then the end is known.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.

So now I imagine, among these Angels and their drained white brides, momentous grunts and sweating, damp furry encounters; or, better, ignominious failures, cocks like three-week-old carrots, anguished fumblings upon flesh cold and unresponding as uncooked fish.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

Ni un solo instante apartó la mirada de Daisy; creo que revalorizaba todo cuanto había en su casa, de acuerdo con la medida de aprobación que leía en sus adorables pupilas. A veces miraba sus poseciones asombrado, como si en la real y sorprendente presencia de Daisy, nada fuera ya real.

Lejos de mí, querida hermana, el despreciar tales placeres. Serán sin duda propios del carácter de casi todas las mujeres. Pero confieso que no me atraen. Prefiero, con mucho, un libro.

Un plan que promete incontables placeres no puede triunfar; y el desencanto general sólo se conjura con ayuda de algún pequeño disgusto.

I am afraid. Not of live, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if it had never been.