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What we shared was no more than a fragment of a time long dead. Yet memories remained, warm memories that remained with me like lights from the past. And I would carry those lights in the brief interval before death grabbed me and tossed me
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“What we shared was no more than a fragment of a time long dead. Yet memories remained, warm memories that remained with me like lights from the past. And I would carry those lights in the brief interval before death grabbed me and tossed me back into the crucible of nothingness.”
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
― Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
“Maybe I am just an empty, futile person, he thought. But it was precisely because there was nothing inside of me that these people could find, even if for a short time, a place where they belonged. Like a nocturnal bird seeks a safe place to rest during the day in a vacant attic. The birds like that empty, dim, silent place. If that were true, then maybe he should be happy he was hollow.”
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“But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?”
“Nothing is written in your eyes". I replied.
"It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Nothing is written in your eyes". I replied.
"It is written in my eyes and i see the reflection in yours”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“我們不妨回頭檢視:「禮儀」在人類學中的發展史兩個人伸出手,互相緊握,代表友誼,而這些動作在心理上的意義卻是:我告訴對方,我用來持武器的那雙手,裡頭是空空的,請您檢查;而對方也作了同樣的宣示。透過我們互相的確認,我們認定了彼此沒有攜帶武器,而是真的要來談判的。禮貌在心理上意義,就是敵意的遮掩⋯”
― 黑羊效應
― 黑羊效應
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