“They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“At this moment” is a rare thing because only sometimes do I step with both feet on the land of the present; usually one foot slides toward the past, the other slides toward the future. And I end up with nothing.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
“What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.”
― A Breath of Life
― A Breath of Life
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