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“i just kept thinking that when human beings get that way, they’re no good for anything”

“now i have neither happiness not unhappiness. everything passes. that is the one and only thing i have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where i have dwelled up to now in a burning hell. everything passes.”

“she lay down beside me. towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word ‘death.’ she too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when i reflected on my dread of the world and it’s bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that i could go on living. i consented easily to her proposal.”