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“Once again, I felt as I needed to flee or Id die. That was how my life was panning out.”
“Minus: Papa, I'm scared. When I was hugging Karin in the boat, reality burst open. Do you understand?David: I do.Minus: Reality burst open, and I tumbled out. It's like a dream. Anything can happen...”
“It is not in the storm or in the strifeWe feel benumbed and wish to be nor more,But in the after-silence on the shoreWhen all is lost except a little life.”
“Need will send you even into the arms of your enemy”
“Better to rest in peace than rot in pieces”
“The Wind Will Carry UsIn my night, so brief, alasThe wind is about to meet the leaves.My night so brief is filled with devastating anguishHark! Do you hear the whisper of the shadows?This happiness...”
“Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchednessthe bottomless, monotonous wretchednessof his existence. The wretchedness...”
“I asked a man who took a death boat to Europe across the treachelous waters of the Mediterranean from Libya"Why are you taking this death boat". "I am already dead." He said. This is my coffin. If ...”
“Despair is the source of all evil”
“She was part of the machine she tended, and every faculty that was not needed for the machine was doomed to be crushed out of existence.”
“My life has become like a bus, and I'm just watching it pass by”
“History was safer than the news, because there was no question of how it would end. ~ "The Briefcase”
“The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.”
“A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.”
“We drove down Corydon avenue towards my mother's apartment. How are you doing, she asked me? Fine, fine, I said. I wanted to tell her that I felt I was dying from rage and that I felt guilty about ...”
“The point is that we are not doomed because we are homosexual, my dear, we are doomed only if we live in despair because of it, as we did on the beaches and the streets of Suck City.”
“Theres no hope for someone who doesnt even know what hope is”
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.”
“... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.”
“We are so small; and what must one hold on to when one no longer recognizes one's own hands, nor one's step, nor even the small dose of everyday despair.”
