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He had used work to accelerate his existence, to soften life's jagged edges into a blur. And he was good at it. It gave his meaning and he had loved it but work -- to the excesses he had done it -- was also a way to life without living. A way to transfer emotions over to something less personal, something g with lower stakes.
— Jun 29, 2026 02:12PM
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Ultimately, even love was weak against the desire to avoid pain.
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There were many deaths in life. A person, it seemed to the Ghost now, died in stages.
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The (book) characters are like people but better because you do t have to talk to them.
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He read because stories gave him room to grow beyond the world he was given.
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