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“I love you,' she said to me, and I believed her. 'I love you,' I said to her, and I spoke the truth. We were a torch of flame, the edges of the bed tongues of Hell-fire. The smell of smoke was in my nostrils as she said to me 'I love you, my darling,' and as I said to her 'I love you, my darling,' and the universe, with its past, present and future, was gathered together into a single point before and after which nothing existed.”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
“I could either study meaning or I could experience it.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Though floating on the water, I was not a part of it.”
― Season of Migration to the North
― Season of Migration to the North
“It could be argued that death is inherently absurd, and that grinning is not necessarily an inappropriate response. I mean absurd in the sense of ridiculous, unreasonable. One second a person is there, the next they're not. Though perhaps Camus' definition of the absurd—that the universe is irrational and human life meaningless—applies here as well. [quoting from The Myth of Sisyphus: The subject of this essay is precisely this relationship between the absurd and suicide, the exact degree to which suicide is a solution to the absurd.]”
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
― Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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