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“He would have loved me unquestioningly and stubbornly forever. And I don’t know if I want to be loved like that.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“I’m sorry that I loved you so much more than I liked myself, that must have been a lot to carry. I’m sorry I didn’t take care of you the way you took care of me. And I’m sorry I didn’t take care of myself, either. I need to work on it. I’m pleased that our break-up taught me that. I’m sorry I went so mental.”
― Good Material
― Good Material
“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“The reader and I thus mingled will constitute something living, that will not be me, because I will be dead, and will not be that person as they were before reading, because my story, added to their mind, will then become part of their thinking.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I cannot mourn for what I have not known.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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