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woman who claimed to want only the best for me, and yet she gave birth to me!
Take it from me, the best way to be appreciated somewhere is to not be there, you get me?
‘when you do stand-up you sometimes make people laugh, and that’s no small thing.’
how an aversion to remembering one enormous painful memory can slowly dull and blot out huge parts of the past.
‘Do you even grasp what a stunning idea it is to just be?
His questions led me to comprehend that I had a rare treasure: life experience.
We said goodbye with a new sort of lightness, even an awakening of affection.
from the minute I saw your face, your round, light-filled face, with its beautiful, wise, pure forehead, with its roots of strong, dense hair, which I stupidly believed testified to your strong grip on life, and your broad, large, generous, dancing body – don’t you dare erase even one of those adjectives – you were such medicine for me, such medicine for the dry bachelorhood that had closed in on me,
You, who promised, when you asked for my hand, to look at me always with kind eyes. The eyes of a loving witness, you said. And no one has ever said anything lovelier to me.
How inadequate are the expressions our faces offer us.
I’m beginning to sense that this gaze is the audience’s most effective weapon.
Remember that every person only lives for a short time, and you have to make that time pleasant for him.
‘Of course. And you said I was one of a kind, and that if I cried ’cause of them, then you see it upside down, and it’s like I’m laughing ’cause of me.’
A single moment that lasts a lifetime, still poisoning anything I come close to, to this day. Every person I touch.’
I saw for real that he wasn’t worth anything without her, and that all his power in life came from her being with him. He turned into half a human in that one instant.
When it came to her, he didn’t do any accounting. He really did love her.’
