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“Then you forget some of it all, maybe most of it all, almost all of it, in the end, and you work hard at remembering everything now so you won’t ever forget, but you can kill it too even by thinking about it too much, but you can’t help thinking about it nearly all the time.”
— Mar 29, 2026 04:40PM
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“She looks at the clock often and is aware of exactly what time it is now, and then ten minutes from now, even though she has no need to know what time it is. She also knows exactly how she is feeling, uneasy now, angry ten minutes from now. She is sick to death of knowing what she is feeling, but she can’t stop, and though is she stops watching for longer than a moment, she will disappear (wander off).”
— Apr 12, 2026 07:50PM
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“And he tried not to lose sight of the fact that he was an adult in an adult world, with responsibilities.”
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“The moment when a limit is reached, when there is nothing ahead but darkness: something comes in to help that is not real. Another way all this is like madness: a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him.”
— Mar 29, 2026 03:43PM
