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“Comedy is a lie, too, of course. It’s a defense, an aggression. It is a thing created to separate, to say, “I am not like this.” It is Godlike in its judgment and, by definition, the antithesis of empathy. Comedy sits on its throne and states: You are ridiculous. You are pathetic. You are stupid. Your pain amuses me. Most important, I am not you. Even comedy directed at the self, the stand-ups, the Woody Allens of the world, is performed as an act of defense: I am in on the joke that is me, therefore the joke is not me.”
― Antkind
― Antkind
“it’s not as if you love someone once and that’s it. You renew your love again and again over the long haul, through everything that happens along the way.”
― A Man
― A Man
“when the love for her husband had been deepest, the distance between them smallest. With no one else there, no room for mistaking the other, no need to distinguish them from anyone else,”
― A Man
― A Man
“Having died young, you will never be old.”
― Suicide
― Suicide
“How peculiar that she saw her son every day but had only succeeded in drawing closer to him through a book.”
― A Man
― A Man
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