“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
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“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”
― Aloha from Hell
― Aloha from Hell
“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.”
― Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
― Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
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