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“…was ever in love with misfortune and believed the world a wounded thing that can only be healed by story.”

“Common sense is common, has no imagination, and only works be precedent. It leaves the man who follows it poorer, if not in pocket, then in his heart. Fuck common sense.”

“The hearts of men are alike wherever you go. The rest is scenery.”

“It’s despair and meaning that are being pitted against one another, and it’s asking, if meaning departs from reason, might there not be wisdom in a faith-filled lunacy?”

“There’s always something left for the person who remembers.”

“But I think I’m happy. I know I am. Sometimes I feel like crying, but I reckon that’s ‘cause at last things are happening, and I care how they unfold.”

“For the world was once just a dream in a god’s eye, and the man who gives up on himself makes that very same god look away.”

“I remembered that Oedipus was good. That even thought he’d done and suffered all those horrible things, he was still good; whether the gods cared didn’t matter. And I remember as a kid feeling that this was awfully sad and beautiful. There was dignity even in the worst that could happen under this sky, and I felt less alone.”

“Hunger, what an odd thing it is. Is the source of all love a lacking? Is that what creates emotion? Not a presence but an absence. Do you need to be emptied to be filled?”