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That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation. That Big God howled like a hot wind, and demanded obeisance.
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“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Para escribir hay que desear que algo te sobreviva.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Loneliness feels like such a shameful experience, so counter to the lives we are supposed to lead, that it becomes increasingly inadmissible, a taboo state whose confession seems destined to cause others to turn and flee.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“-No es locura, Dede, es dolor.
-No derramó ni una lágrima.
-Las lágrimas no son el dolor.
-Sí, pero sin las lágrimas, ¿quién te asegura que el dolor existe?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
-No derramó ni una lágrima.
-Las lágrimas no son el dolor.
-Sí, pero sin las lágrimas, ¿quién te asegura que el dolor existe?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Para qué habrán servido entonces todas estas páginas. Me proponía aferrarla, tenerla otra vez a mi lado, y me moriré sin saber si lo he conseguido.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
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