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“I wish I could have told him that loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely. Humans think they know with certainty where there being ends and someone else's starts. With there roots tangled and caught up underground, linked to fungi and bacteria, trees harbour no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Maar misschien dacht ik vooral na over wat leven was. Ik was er nog niet over uit: dagen doorbrengen in kroegen en met anderen de tijd weggooien of hard werken om de ander te bewijzen waartoe je in staat bent. Dat laatste heb ik geprobeerd. Maar het werkte niet.”
― Ga niet naar het moeras
― Ga niet naar het moeras
“Perhaps what we’re all looking for, my dear Diary, is never truth as revelation, but rather truth as possibility, the gleam at the bottom of the mine in which we’ve been endlessly digging without a headlamp.”
― The Most Secret Memory of Men
― The Most Secret Memory of Men
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