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“It’s going to be super rough. You’ll gnaw your pillow into feathers all night; there’ll be feathers everywhere when you wake up. And you’ll have seizures and foam at the mouth. And dirty yourself the way sick animals do. Are you ready for that? You realize we don’t give you anything here.” (pg. 52)

“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.” (pg. 164-165)

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“He could tell that at a glance. The chairs, the carpets, the tables — all had rotted away; they sagged in mutual ruin, victims of the despotic force of time. And of abandonment. No one has lived in this apartment for years; the ruin had become almost complete.” (pg. 60)