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Whatever help was being offered, I wished that Father had taken it. It’s a peculiarity in some men that they cannot accept help without feeling compromised by it. It’s better to die alone, it would seem, than to live in the debt of another
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“The menu is not the meal.”
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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
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