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Human desire tends to be insatiable. We are so anxious for pleasure that we can never get enough of it. We stimulate our sense organs until they become insensitive, so that if pleasure is to continue they must have stronger and stronger ...more
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Kristopher Triana
“There’s only two places anyone can find peace—the woods and the grave.”
Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“For six years, you showed Pero reverence and admiration. So Pero, a sociopath, didn’t want to extinguish the rare flame of respect that illuminated his worthless ego,” Brian explained. “Killing you would have made him feel less powerful, not more.”
Kenan Trebincevic, The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return

Georgi Gospodinov
“I'm getting old. Exiled ever further from the Rome of childhood in the distant empty provinces of old age, from which there is no return. And Rome no longer answers my letters. Somewhere the past exists as a house or a street that you've left for a short while, for five minutes, and you've found yourself in a strange city. It's been written that the past is a foreign country. Nonsense. The past is my home country. The future is a foreign country, full of strange faces, I won't set foot there.

Let me go back home... my mother told me not to be late.”
Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov
“There is no time machine except the human being.”
Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

Georgi Gospodinov
“Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.”
Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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