To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw — to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer — if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions — we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
Quentin Crisp: Citations sur la vie
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to place their entire life in the hands of some other person. For this purpose they frequently choose someone who doesn’t even want the beastly thing.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
“La vie est une drôle de chose qui m'est arrivé en allant à la tombe.”
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
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The Naked Civil Servant (Fonctionnaire du nu)
It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble. On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world.
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