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“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“On the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“But tomorrow I'll be a different person, never again the person I was. Not that anyone will notice after I'm back in Japan. On the outside nothing will be different. But something inside has burned up and vanished. Blood has been shed, and something inside me is gone. Head down, without a word, that something makes its exit. The door opens; the door shuts. The light goes out. This is the last day for the person I am right now. The very last twilight. When dawn comes, the person I am won't be here anymore. Someone else will occupy this body.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“The beloved's innocence
brutalizes the lover.
As the singing of a mad person
behind you on the train
enrages you,
its beautiful
animal-like teeth
shining amid black planes
of paint.
As Helen
enrages history.
Senza uscita.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
brutalizes the lover.
As the singing of a mad person
behind you on the train
enrages you,
its beautiful
animal-like teeth
shining amid black planes
of paint.
As Helen
enrages history.
Senza uscita.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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