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“In the event of a nuclear war, sub-saharan Africa would be the best place to avoid fallout. There are ample people walking around at night which makes gathering food a non-issue for cannibals”
― Raymond Peat

“Moments happen or don’t happen, people’s lives are altered and sometimes destroyed by them, and what can one say? What can one do? Apparently nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

“I write in bed. I prefer going to bed to getting up, but I prefer living to dying.”
― Édouard Levé, Autoportrait

“What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only therapeutic route. When presented with an infection such as a brain, eudemonia and euthanasia converge.”
― Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History