Status Updates From Herzog

“I will do no more to enact the peculiarities of life. This is done well enough without my special assistance.”

“When a man’s breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown - he is free, he is light. And he longs to have his vultures back again.”

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For Ramona it evidently surrounded him with glamour. And provided that he remain macho she would listen with glistening eyes, with more sympathy, and more, and more. She transformed his miseries into sexual excitements and, to give credit where it was due, turned his grief in a useful direction.
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