Status Updates From In a Strange Room

This is the most accurate portrait of a German I have ever seen

" He is just very tired, too tired to comfort her right now, perhaps
tomorrow he will be strong enough again, and this is a crucial difference
between them, he thinks in terms of tomorrow and the day after that, but for
her there is only now, which is eternity."

"A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made."

-"But it’s for this precisely that you must forgive me,
because in every story of obsession there is only one character, only one
plot. I am writing about myself alone, it’s all I know, and for this reason I
have always failed in every love, which is to say at the very heart of my
life."

" Jerome, if I can’t make you live in words, if you are only the dim evocation
of a face under a fringe of hair, and the others too, Alice and Christian and
Roderigo, if you are names without a nature, it’s not because I don’t
remember, no, the opposite is true, you are remembered in me as an endless
stirring and turning. "

"Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to
matter very much."

"If I had done this, if I had said that, in
the end you are always more tormented by what you didn’t do than what
you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the
neglected deed might have changed the world."

"Then he sits in the sun, listening to the
water, reading. In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And
before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied
for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were."

Slow burn perfection