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“This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“It isn’t really much of a mystery, this occasional need I have to comfort my father. I did something terrible to his son once.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“And I started to say “fine,” and I meant to say “fine,” but I ended up saying that I felt my life was filled like a big jug to the brim with almost indescribable joy, so much that I hardly knew how to handle it.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
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