Joshua
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“Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Per-haps every can of cashews has a fake snake lurking, but you keep opening them, stupidly, because in your heart of hearts you still believe in cashews.”
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
― Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
“Everything matters so much and so little; it is disgusting.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Whenever someone does something nice for me, I feel intensely aware of how strange and sad it is to know someone.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”
― First Person Singular: Stories
― First Person Singular: Stories
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