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“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“But how are you going to die one day, Narcissus, since you have no mother? Without a mother one cannot love. Without a mother one cannot die.”
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“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
Everything passes.
That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.
Everything passes.”
― No Longer Human
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”
― Correction
― Correction
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