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I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Hubert Selby, Jr.
Age: 75 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 23
Died: 2004
Died: April 26
Film Actor
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I do believe this: That what we call love is always available to us. And of course I'm not just talking about passion. I'm talking about love where you just can't conceive that your life isn't perfect, that you can't conceive of wanting anything.
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...and the night was comfortably warm as the soft filtered light continued to push the darkness into the shadows as they held each other and kissed and pushed each others darkness into the corner, believing in each others light, each others dream.
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I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.
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Be careful of things like alcohol and drugs.
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