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And so I laughed because this was life, and a part of mine was over now and nothing exploded and no light was revealed.
“Alas, the heart is not a metaphor, or at least not always a metaphor.”
― Sleepless Nights
― Sleepless Nights
“My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.”
― Speedboat
― Speedboat
“Do we not use each other to slip across the frontiers of self-scrutiny as something other than lonely people?”
― A Smuggler's Bible
― A Smuggler's Bible
“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
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