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I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It ...more

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There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mys...more

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Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

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Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reason of heartbreak.

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I was good and bad, but never wicked.

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I kept glancing at him and away from him, as if his green eyes were hurting me. In modern parlance he was a laser beam. Deadly and delicate he seemed....more

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As I looked down at him, as I saw his yellow hair pressed against my coat, I had a vision of him from long ago, that tall, stately gentleman in the sw...more

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Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

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I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.

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as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words dr...more

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Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

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It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left t...more

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I drank, sucking the blood out of the holes, experiencing for the first time since infancy the special pleasure of sucking nourishment, the body focus...more

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The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft ro...more