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“[...] the furies who indulge the happiness of today to feed the violence of tomorrow.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Hasn’t that always been the way of it? We all choose our sins, and their measure. The ones we believe will render us unforgivable, and the ones that we will wash off with a morning prayer.”
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
― They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
― Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”
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