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“No one says it is okay to feel hurt. No one says anything. Everyone just goes on living. We all go on living until we lose more of each other. And then we are made lesser.”
― Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
― Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
“Little did she yet understand that the end of childhood comes not when a child’s body changes with puberty, but when her mind is finally able to see her life through the eyes of an outsider.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“But human memory resembles a late-night reveller who has had a few too many drinks: hard as it tries, it just cannot follow a straight line. It staggers through a maze of inversions, often moving in dizzying zigzags, immune to reason and liable to collapse altogether.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“an unconditional obedience to age and authority.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Perhaps what they said was true: that only at the end of the quest did the seeker understand how deeply rooted in error his journey had been, only at the end of the narrow road to the deep north did the Japanese poet perceive that there was nothing to be learned in the deep north, only at the summit of Mount Qaf which they had climbed in search of their winged god did the thirty bird-pilgrims see that they themselves were the god they were looking for, and only when one saw the sign saying WELCOME did one comprehend the impossibility of the welcome”
― Quichotte
― Quichotte
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