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“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Maakt het uit, vroeg ik, maakt het iets uit of je weet waarom iemand je verlaat? Leiden gesprekken over waarom en hoe en met welke gevoelens ergens toe? Het verhaal kan immers een leugen zijn, en de uitkomst blijft hetzelfde en het onverenigbare of het onoverbrugbare dat de pijnlijke kern is van zo'n breuk verdwijnt er niet door. Al dat praten is alleen een ritueel.”
― In het oog
― In het oog
“The wind was in their hair; their heads were full of hash and supermarket beer; they ran so fast they became immemorial, amnesiac. They were racing above the town, away from their own stories, away from everyone who wanted to remember them; they were no one, they were together, and they were alive alive alive alive.”
― The Bee Sting
― The Bee Sting
“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
“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
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