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“Escape hatches may take different forms”

“Oh! Sweet mystery of life, in which I could leave things unspecified, untitled, unknown.”

“We all get crushed by things…I don’t think it matters, in the end..”

“Then I realised…even if you really care about something, the passion can…fade? Yeah. Love fades.”

“It’s not some bogus thing I made up, you know. It’s real.”
“I didn’t mean that you were making it up.”
“Well it feels…it feels like you don’t believe me…”

“Are you in pain today?”
“I can’t feel anything. They’re just numb…you know the hardest part of all this is? There is no getting better, no explanations or answers. Everyone is kind and understanding at first, but eventually patience runs out and people start to suspect there is something, you know, psychologically wrong. I’ve had so many doctors suggest it’s ‘all in my mind’.”

“…I read a quote that said, like, if women ran the world, the central question of philosophy would be whether to have children. Whereas Camus said the central question was whether one should commit suicide…in which no other moral quandaries arise!”

“Did you end up seeing that specialist?”
“Yeah, essentially they have no idea why I’m in so much pain and nobody knows what to do.”
“This is sexism!”
“Yeah, I know right? It’s like no one knows what to do with women’s bodies.”