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If one operates on the principle that everything can be a learning experience, then of course aging needn’t be so painful.
Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value.
What had once been a violent, panting flood of emotion had suddenly withdrawn, leaving behind a heap of what felt like meaningless old dreams.
The world awaiting him out there was just too big, too powerful; there seemed to be no place where he could burrow into it.
The setting sun had broken through the clouds, turning them a strange color and dyeing the inside of his apartment.
“I’m not bragging—I just think being an optimistic fool beats the alternative.”
It seemed that no one could live without pride. If that was all one had left, though, it was too dark. Way too dark.
Tennessee Williams once wrote: “So much for the past and present. The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future.”
