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“Unfortunately, dying doesn’t make you any wiser.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“You search for a reasonable, convincing explanation. You need that more than anything. But nobody has one. Nobody tells you where to go now. No one consoles you or encourages you. (It wouldn’t help even if they did.) You’re left utterly alone in a desolate land. Not a single tree or blade of grass to be seen. A strong wind is already blowing in one direction there—a wind that stings the skin like tiny needles. You’ve been mercilessly excluded from a world of warmth. Isolated. With thoughts that have no outlet, lying heavy, like a lump of lead, inside you.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“In my eyes the world out there is the real world. People struggle there, grow old, grow weak, and die. Not so wonderful maybe, but isn’t that what the world’s really like? You’re supposed to accept that. And, as best I can, I join you in that. You can’t stop time, and when you die, you’re dead forever. Things that disappear are gone for good. You have to accept that that’s the way things are.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“Maybe the person most puzzled about me was…me.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
“Once you’ve tasted pure, unadulterated love, it’s like a part of your heart’s been irradiated, burned out, in a sense. Particularly when that love, for whatever reason, is suddenly severed. For the person involved, that sort of love is both the supreme happiness and a curse.”
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
― The City and Its Uncertain Walls
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