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“Why wouldn’t anyone admit that a life is not a life but a deathward existence?”
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“Pragmatic, I have always preferred to be in the background, unobserved; I preferred to play the role of the detached observer/receiver, the way one would live if one lived and spoke and shat inside a puffy white cloud floating along above the world harmlessly like a balloon.”
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“The first thing you can do to contain your life is to just stop buying things.”
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“Perhaps he saw swarms and machinic assemblages everywhere. Who wants to see that?”
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“I only knew time existed because as the years went on, my flesh slackened and my muscles ached. It was as if my bones were wearing some kind of flesh muumuu. Time itself is nothing but a construction to organize and measure flesh decay.”
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“I could kill a dog with a brick! I shouted to no one when I was done.”
― Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
― Sorry to Disrupt the Peace
“Time itself is nothing but a construction to organize and measure flesh decay.”
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“He was comfortable anywhere he was not forced to confront his own physical discomfort with being alive.”
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“As I paged through the senior portraits, I became enchanted by all of the mocking and bitter faces. Everyone was broken and ruinous.”
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