“Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.”
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“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
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