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“I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

tags: communication

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“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.”
― Denis Johnson, Nobody Move

tags: candy, neon

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“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: connection, death, fear

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“I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

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