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“Everyone's relationships are weird if you look closely enough at them. I have a theory that if your relationship with someone isn't weird, you don't know them well enough yet.”

Book:Seatmate

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Seatmate

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“She stared ahead with eyes where dreams no longer swam, where thoughts no longer had any life. It was that hazy stare of old people behind which was the mysterious nothingness which was drawing nearer, the absolute end, the annihilation of everything and everybody, the awful end in helplessness, grief, grief, and the sleep of everything there is.”

Holocaust Survivors

Book:Diamonds of the Night

Source: Diamonds of the Night

“Time reminds everybody of death, but who goes around day and night talking about it? Was this the source of that strange anxiety which sometimes comes over us, without our knowing why? Like some strange sister of joy, it was a tremor of fear, of ending, of all that begins and passes away. Was this the source of that odd loneliness we feel even when we aren't alone. and which is akin to stardust?”

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Book:Diamonds of the Night

Source: Diamonds of the Night

“To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.”

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Book:Diamonds of the Night

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“There are some things we run after and it turns out that we run in vain. Then there are things we don't pursue, and those are the things that escape us.”

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Book:Diamonds of the Night

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“To kill and caress. Or simply kill, so you're not always bothered by something or somebody. So it is to be killed or to kill.”

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Book:Diamonds of the Night

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“Hunger and cold were like two walls with no room for anything else in between but loneliness, in which a man is a stranger even to himself.”

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Book:Diamonds of the Night

Source: Diamonds of the Night

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