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is not despair, nor melancholy destitution.

Mexico doesn't have an emperor." "That is Mexico's misfortune, for all of the greatest countries have emperors.

For a while a person is a junkie and a bartender or a junkie and a father or a junkie and a thief, but after a while he's just a junkie.

Every man and woman is distinct from every other. But every mob is the same mob, whether composed of mineworkers or monarchs.

A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.

The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.

Our language has yet to develop a proper send-off for leaving a close friend's deathbed.

He was as happy as a pup on Christmas morning, as a maid on her wedding night, as a wolf before his bloody red supper.

Evil is best served without a patina of hypocrisy.

To exist without awareness, that was what you aimed at. Memories worn to irrelevance, the future equally insubstantial.

When bowing to the inevitable, it's best to do so low, and quickly.

I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.

But then again what we seem to be is not always what we are.

Were the best of friends. One of them was likely to kill the other before long.

It's a dangerous thing, pretense. A man ought to know who he is, even if he isn't proud to be it.

perhaps it is only that sometimes misery seems to ease when spread about, or that spreading it seems to provide some purpose to the misery.

You got no business coming in here and playing the asshole.'
'I am an asshole, Sully. We haven't even scraped the surface yet.

It's an odd fact about lunatics and junkies, but every one I'd ever met is just dying to share their life wisdom.

Experience does not necessarily lead to understanding,' the

As far as immortality went, that was obviously not any sort of good at all. Who had ever met death without some partial measure of joy?

The sort of creature whose wildest fantasies were filled with ledgers that balanced perfectly, and rows of clocks chiming in eternal unison.

It is not enough to be intelligent,' Eudokia said, setting up the pieces for a second game. 'One must also be vicious.

Duplicity was not the sole province of the capital, Bas knew, but the honest inheritance of the entire species.

Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.

The body can decay right in front of you, go from a tool that expresses your will to an anchor dragging you down to hell.