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“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“People can numb themselves, get used to anything.”
― Craig Clevenger, The Contortionist's Handbook

“He had come to life for maybe a minute to try to tell us something, something none of us cared to listen to or tried to understand, and the effort had drained him dry.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“نقول إننا بخير حتى لو كنا نحتضر. وهذا متعارف عليه بأنه استجماع للشجاعة،وهي ظاهرة لم تعرف إلا لدى البشر.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I know I want out of this mess. I want out. No one will ever love me, I will live and die alone, I will go nowhere fast, I will be nothing at all. Nothing will work out. The promise that on the other side of depression lies a beautiful life, one worth surviving suicide for, will have turned out wrong. It will all be a big dupe.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
― Orwell