I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

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Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

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Henry Miller - "Primăvară neagră": "În clocotul și agitația orei de vîrf, eu stau și visez lîngă un aperitiv. Cerul e calm, norii nemișcați. Stau în punctul mort al traficului, împăcat cu tihna vieții noi ce se naște din putreziciunea din jur. Tălpile mele ating rădăcinile unui trup fără vîrstă pentru care nu am nici un nume. Comunic cu întregul pămînt. Iată-mă în chiar pîntecul vremii unde nimic nu-mi poate tulbura calmul. Încă un rătăcitor care a aflat patima propriei neliniști. Iată-mă pe stradă, compunîndu-mi cîntecul. Este cîntecul pe care l-am auzit în copilărie, cîntecul pe care l-am pierdut în lumea cea nouă și pe care nu l-aș mai fi regăsit dacă nu aș fi căzut ca o crenguță în oceanul timpului.

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Si tuviera la oportunidad de ser Dios, la rechazaría. Si tuviese la oportunidad de ser una estrella, la rechazaría. La oportunidad más maravillosa que ofrece la vida es la de ser humano. Abarca todo el universo. Incluye el conocimiento de la muerte, del que ni siquiera Dios goza.

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One never thinks of China, but it is there all the time on the tips of your fingers and it makes your nose itchy; and long afterward, when you have forgotten almost what a firecracker smells like, you wake up one day with gold leaf choking you and the broken pieces of punk waft back their pungent odor and the bright red wrappers give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there in your blood, like the sense of time or space, a fugitive, constant value to which you turn more and more as you get old, which you try to seize with your mind, but ineffectually, because in everything Chinese there is wisdom and mystery and you can never grasp it with two hands or with your mind but you must let it rub off, let it stick to your fingers, let it slowly infiltrate your veins.

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It's a wonderful thing, for half an hour, to have money in your pocket and piss it away like a drunken sailor. You feel as though the world is yours. And the best part of it is, you don't know what to do with it.

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I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.

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The task of genius
is to keep the miracle alive,
to live always in the miracle,
to make the miracle more and more miraculous,
to swear allegiance to nothing,
but live only miraculously,
think only miraculously,
die miraculously.

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I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse....
To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
It is to you, Tania, that I am singing. I wish that I could sing better, more melodiously, but then perhaps you would never have consented to listen to me. You have heard the others sing and they have left you cold. They sang too beautifully, or not beautifully enough.

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I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!

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