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What have I given to the people around me while I have been alive? ...this was the first time I'd ever really thought about this. What would the differences be between the world in which I existed (however briefly) and a different world where almost everything is exactly the same, except in this parallel universe I never existed? It is all those differences, however minuscule, that make up my existence.

"People are fickle that way. Something they once valued becomes meaningless almost overnight."

"...I tried to imagine what my movie would be like.... But this is boring, I realize. This is just scene after scene of mundane details.... What a low-budget movie! And on top of all that, the star of the show (me!) doesn't show any sign of having a goal in life or values of any kind. He's an apathetic guy, completely lacking in spirit, and is of no interest at all to the audience."

"Over time we had clocked in more than a thousand hours in telephone conversations, and now all it took was five minutes to end the relationship."