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It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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The integrity of my sleep has been forever compromised, sir.
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Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.
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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
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I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
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I find in myself a need to get very away.
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