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“I was both relieved and irritated when Reva showed up, the way you'd feel if someone interrupted you in the middle of suicide.”
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― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I thought that if I did normal things—held down a job, for example—I could starve off the part of me that hated everything. If I had been a man, I may have turned to a life of crime.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I thought life would be more tolerable if my brain were slower to condemn the world around me.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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