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‘Can you hear the dead singing, the bright-green dead? They disintegrate in their graves, easily, painlessly. If you put your hand into their bodies all you feel are fragments, and the teeth come out so easily. Where is the life that drove
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“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”
― A Brief Life
― A Brief Life
“If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
“A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.”
― The Luxury of Exile
― The Luxury of Exile
“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.”
― Pot Luck
― Pot Luck
“I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.”
― The Golem
― The Golem
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