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“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
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“There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“There are three things we cry for in life - things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”
― Girlfriend in a Coma
― Girlfriend in a Coma
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