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« A sense of loss which was doomed to remain eternally unmitigated stealthily began to take shape. Whenever I spoke of painting, that undrunk glass of absinthe flickered before my eyes. I was agonized by the frustrating thought: if only I could show them those paintings they would believe in my artistic talents. »

« The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness. I was impatient to leave her while things still stood the same, before I got wounded, and I spread my usual smokescreen of farce. »

« Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown, a child who never spoke a single truthful word. »

« “Sorry! Sorry! I had to pee. Like … so bad,” said the world’s smartest and most accomplished microbiologist. »

« I clench my teeth. I clench my fists. I clench my butt. I clench every part of me that I know how to clench. It gives me a feeling of control. I’m doing something by aggressively doing nothing. »

« "I'm dividing the Astrophage and sending it to thirty different labs around the world. Everything from CERN to a CIA bioweapons facility."
"The CIA has a biowea—?" I began. "Never mind." »

« I know Liberia uses imperial units but I don’t know my own name. That’s irritating. »

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