One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.
Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Love love, but do no love the man, of you'll be in his power.
— You're a fucking maniac. A caffeine maniac.
— You're drinking coffee, ain't you? Yeah. So?
— So maybe you should try to quit?
— I ain't no fucking quitter.
It's an addiction. And you have to kill the addict to kill the addiction.
— Yeah, Alex could have a vehicle as well, but he decided to burn all of his money.
— And why did you do that?
— l don't need money. Makes people cautious.
— Come on, Alex. You gotta be a little cautious. l mean, that book of yours is cool and everything, but you can't depend entirely on leaves and berries.
— l don't know if you want to depend on much more than that.
Finding someone you can't imagine a life without, it's hard.
I need a friend more than I need space.
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Alone in her apartment, she did not weep, she wailed aloud, an animal wailing. When Sonny did not come to see her for almost three weeks she subsisted on sleeping pills, liquor, and her oVn anguish. The pain she felt was physical pain, her body ached. When he finally did come she held on to his body at almost every moment.
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