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“I could be free… If I could pluck out the memory of him from my heart as easily as his heart was plucked from the fire, I could be free.”

“Here I am. Anonymous, unnoticed, walking through the streets, and I am present and invisible. What I am thinking, what I am feeling, are private Bedlams of my own. I manage my own madness just as you do. And if my heart is broken it keeps beating. That is the strangeness of life.”

“I wanted to know you - in the gnostic sense of close experience of what would otherwise be unknown.
You mean you wanted to fuck me?”

“What did you expect? said Victor. When you look closely, life is absurd.”

“To be free from the body completes the human dream.”

“Shelley does not go whoring. No. He falls in love with every new female dream that seems to offer him freedom.”

“No! I don’t want eternal life, I said. This life is trouble enough.
You lack ambition, said Victor. Or perhaps it is courage that you lack.
Maybe I just don’t want to be post-human.”

“What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer?”

“Most of the people, most of the time, are in horrible relationships, dreaming about being in a good relationship. And it’s a fantasy. It’s like the beach body you’ll never have”

“Differently disabled - his pessimism about love, my fear of it. Our wounded lives take shelter here. Why can’t we mend ourselves? Why can’t we save each other?”