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“You can have tons of talent, but it won’t necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, though, you’ll never go hungry.”
These people are your nameless friends for just a little while. I come here every day, say hello to the butterflies, and talk about things with them. When the time comes, though, they just quietly go off and disappear.
“But at least I have someone I love.” “Even if he never loved you?” “If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”
Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
“Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It’s a crime.”
She is undoubtedly someone of special significance to me. She is—how should I put it?—an all-encompassing image projected straight at me, but an image I find it impossible to decipher.
Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss. Things that are important to your life begin to slip out of your grasp, one after another, like a comb losing teeth. And the only things that come to take their place are worthless imitations. Your physical strength, your hopes, your dreams, your ideals, your convictions, all meaning, or, then again, the people you love: one by one, they fade away. Some announce their departure before they leave, while others just disappear all of a sudden without warning one day.
If you couldn’t understand something without an explanation, you couldn’t understand it with an explanation.
“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning.
Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Once you’ve hidden something, you have to keep it hidden.
I was always stuck between feelings of inferiority and superiority.
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They preached about God’s kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.
“I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don’t just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside.
