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“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
“And myself? Observe me. There is something to be gained from my surface uses, and perhaps a little more from my lower depths, but my very bottom? That's where I am alone, the observer and the obser...”
“Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?”
“I thought no one was talking to me and the others thought I wasn't talking to them.”
“And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The gr...”
“Things are continually beginning again; theyre never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether its solutions to those extra...”
“We were the lucky ones, the notthese, we were the ones who had survived the aerial bombing and fire-clusters, the final flash. Regrettable, unavoidable, a war to end all wars, a war for democracy, ...”
“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
“Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those ext...”
