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“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Metamorphosis
― Metamorphosis

“Remember on the right night and
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.”
― bone
under the right light
any idea can seem like a good one
and love
love is mostly ill advised but always
brave.”
― bone

“We consummate life and lose it because in some long-ago time someone, in the desire to unload his cock inside us, was nice, chose us among women. We take for some sort of kindness addressed to us alone the banal desire for sex. We love his desire to fuck, we are so dazzled by it we think it’s the desire to fuck only us, us alone. Oh yes, he who is so special and who has recognized us as special. We give it a name, that desire of the cock, we personalize it, we call it my love.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment

“You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.”
― bone
― bone

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