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"can’t find the right edition in goodreads but I’m reading a version published in 1945" — Dec 10, 2025 11:39PM
"can’t find the right edition in goodreads but I’m reading a version published in 1945" — Dec 10, 2025 11:39PM
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.”
― Choke
― Choke
“He had never known what it meant until now—after tasting life in the oases, after wrapping himself in devilish chains like everybody else does in the world. He had traded his freedom for a noose and a doll and an illusion, and told himself the same story as everybody else, "This is what we found our forefathers doing.”
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“I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.”
― A Man Without a Country
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instead of tense.
And I made up lies
So that they all fit nice,
And I made this sad world
A par-a-dise.”
― A Man Without a Country
“My god - why did the innocent always fall at the hands of the most malevolent creatures? Why do such people kill every messenger that is sent to them?”
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