“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”
― Immortality
― Immortality
“Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.”
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“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
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