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“Ich hatte den Tod ohnehin noch nicht verdient, ich konnte ihn doch gar nicht bezahlen, denn er kostete das Leben, und davon hatte ich noch viel zu wenig.”
― Spinner
― Spinner
“Es gab Dinge, die ich nicht sagen, sondern nur schreiben konnte. Denn wenn ich redete, dann dachte ich, und wenn ich schrieb, dann fühlte ich.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“Look, I have it too. It's just like the weather. Like clouds and rain and stuff. They go away. But some of us spend more time in London, you know? Or Seattle. You're just raining right now.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities.
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
Right and wrong, however, are for—well, not unhappy people, maybe, but scarred people; scared people.”
― A Little Life
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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