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“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”
― Der blinde Mörder
― Der blinde Mörder
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
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“Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow.
I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.”
― The Blind Assassin
I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.”
― The Blind Assassin
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.”
― House of Leaves
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.”
― House of Leaves
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