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“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence and gets so used to the feeling of emptiness that it becomes "normal." You don't miss the foundation of feeling until you begin to look for your self and can't find a support in the affects for a self.”
― More Die of Heartbreak
― More Die of Heartbreak
“And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
“I'm only 16," she said, "and I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
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“At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.”
― The Moviegoer
― The Moviegoer
“Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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