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“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Tell me how you want to die, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“Thus he died, and all the life struggled out of him;
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter-savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds.”
― Aeschylus: The Oresteia
and as he died he spattered me with the dark red
and violent driven rain of bitter-savored blood
to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers
of God in glory at the birthtime of the buds.”
― Aeschylus: The Oresteia
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly then to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
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“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
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