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Intermezzo
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“Just normal,' Mum says, 'I'm just normal.'
No, I think to myself, my mum's anything but normal. Even the omelette she's making right now is anything but normal. There are bits of eggshell in it and it's stuck to the bottom of the frying pan, and both the white and the yolk have dried out. She's stopped using butter and she's forgotten the salt and pepper again.”
― De avond is ongemak
No, I think to myself, my mum's anything but normal. Even the omelette she's making right now is anything but normal. There are bits of eggshell in it and it's stuck to the bottom of the frying pan, and both the white and the yolk have dried out. She's stopped using butter and she's forgotten the salt and pepper again.”
― De avond is ongemak
“this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.”
― High-Rise
― High-Rise
“Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created.”
― Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
― Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
“The pauses are a precise language, more a language than actual language is, Elisabeth thinks.”
― Autumn
― Autumn
“What does “worth it” mean? I don’t know. What is worth it? I don’t see the sense in the comparison. It’s like saying, “A child’s smile is worth everything.” It’s bullshit. It’s not true at all. One has nothing to do with the other—what’s the connection? It’s like taking a knife and cutting a person and then smiling at them. Is it worth the smile? There is no connection. Why should you suffer for it? What is this masochism? Okay, “masochism” may involve more pleasant situations. What is the connection? I don’t see any reason to suffer for a child’s smile.”
― Regretting Motherhood
― Regretting Motherhood
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