Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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