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Eric in Ohio
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“There’s an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can’t be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can’t add to it.”
— 13 hours, 4 min ago
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Eric in Ohio
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“Someone who’s on top of the world isn’t much of an observer: happy people are poor psychologists.”
— May 03, 2026 08:10PM
Eric in Ohio
is on page 104 of 257
After escaping an advance…
“Why am I saving myself? For whom? Father scrimped and saved. Mother and I, everyone, the bunch of us scrimped and saved all through those terrible years, while the others were living. I never had the guts, for anything, and what did we get? And suddenly you’re old and faded and you die and you don’t know anything and you never lived and you never knew anything.”
— May 03, 2026 09:00AM
“Why am I saving myself? For whom? Father scrimped and saved. Mother and I, everyone, the bunch of us scrimped and saved all through those terrible years, while the others were living. I never had the guts, for anything, and what did we get? And suddenly you’re old and faded and you die and you don’t know anything and you never lived and you never knew anything.”
Eric in Ohio
is on page 81 of 257
Re the money - 4 months worth of income - Christine received when her Uncle casually split his card game winnings with her: “Her conscience can’t grasp this contradiction: at home money has to be saved so patiently l, coin by dark heavy coin, while here it casually flutters into your hand. A violent fearful shudder runs through her entire being - as though she’d been witness to a crime.”
— May 02, 2026 02:55PM
