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“Aber in unserem Kopf – oder vielleicht sogar der Kopf selbst – ist ein kleines Zimmer, in dem diese Dinge als Erinnerungen aufbewahrt bleiben. Ein Zimmer wie unsere Bibliothek. Und um über unseren genauen geistigen Zustand auf dem Laufenden zu sein, müssen wir die Karteikarten in diesem Zimmer ständig ergänzen. Wir müssen reinigen, lüften und das Blumenwasser wechseln. Anders ausgedrückt, man lebt auf Ewigkeit in seiner eigenen Bibliothek.”

“My sickness is a lot worse than you think: it has far deeper roots. And that's why I want you to go on ahead of me if you can. Don't wait for me. Sleep with other girls if you want to. Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life. I don't want to interfere with anybody's life. Like I said before, I want you to come to see me every once in a while, and always remember me. That's all I want.”

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”

“I suddenly thought about my old girlfriend, the one I had first slept with in my third year of high school. Chills ran through me as I realized how badly I had treated her. I had hardly ever thought about her thoughts or feelings or the pain I had caused her. She was such a sweet and gentle thing, but at the time I had taken her sweetness for granted and later hardly gave her a second thought. What was she doing now? I wondered. And had she forgiven me?”