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Life was a game, a pastime, and death: it didn't exist. We laughed at everything, even at death, and that wasn't completely wrong, laughter always had the last word, the skull's grin when one day we lay there with earth in our mouths.
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A memory is a ledge on the mountainside of the mind; there we are, drinking and chatting, and on the ledge below us my dad sits in his chair, dead, his face smeared with blood.
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If you are afraid of the dark, you seek the light. But what do you do when even the light is filled with terrors?
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I think all cultural epochs are characterised by these two modes, the existence of a future and the absence of a future, and the strange thing is that culture seems to strive towards the absence of future, as if that were the highest form, when all longings have been fulfilled, but it isn't, because then longing turns towards the past, or towards something else that has been lost or was never accomplished.
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Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.
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To turn 40 is to realize that one’s limitations will last one’s whole life through, but also to know that all the time, whether one likes it or not, and whether one is aware of it or not, new layers are being added to one’s character, a type of knowledge and insight that isn’t directed towards the future, towards what will come to pass or one day be accomplished, but towards the here and now, in the things you do every day, in what you think about them and what you understand of them.
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Oh, we hd danced to Frankie Goes to Hollywood. "The Power of Love."The POWER of LO-OVE!But Hanne, Hanne.Feeling her so close to me. Standing nearly as close and talking. Her laughter. Her green eyes. Her small nose.Just before we left, on the way out, she had pinned the button on me.That was what had happened. It wasn't much, but the little there had been was fantastic.
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But the moment I was alone others meant nothing to me. It wasn't that I disliked them, or nurtured feelings of loathing for them; on the contrary, I liked most of them, and the ones I didn't actually like I could always see some worth in, some attribute I could identify with, or at least find interesting, something which could occupy my mind for the moment. But liking them was not the same as caring about them. It was the social situation that bound me, the people within it did not.
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There was nothing left of my feelings for those I had just spent several hours with. The whole crowd of them could have burned in hell for all I cared.
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