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“And anyway, there is no comfort here on Earth. There is pretending, there are words, but there is no peace. Nothing is good here. Nothing. Every place you go on Earth, there is more nonsense.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“and the shame was not, that his body was exposed, but that it was exposed to indifferent eyes.”
― Ayn Rand

“There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five