We just have to climb, climb, climb and build that toughness. And right now, it's more the mental toughness we need to build.


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I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust
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And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poiso...
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five ...
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I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and...
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And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full...
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Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece
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Ink, a Drug.
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I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything i...
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It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love ...
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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
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I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.
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Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the sa...
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Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
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You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own.
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Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
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I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, ...
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We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in...
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But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book...
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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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A wave would arrive, all out of breath, but, as it had nothing to report, it would disperse in apolo...
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I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to s...
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I can only explain my behaviour then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a derang...
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They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so ...
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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
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I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that liter...
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It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...
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You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind...
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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives...
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This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘...
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The color of one's creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to meet somewhere in ti...
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I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia...
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She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had...
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And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. ...
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anythin...
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always ...
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
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but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remain...
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