Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

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Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

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Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.

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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

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You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

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