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"His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile."
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"You are not in the kingdom by accident."
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"Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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"You are the only one of your kind."
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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
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"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
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"Names have power."
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"You are the architect of your future, you decide whether you build a hut or a palace."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
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"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
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"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory

"War is what happens when language fails."
War

"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."
Storytelling

"The internet is 95 percent porn and spam."
Emotion

"And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself."
Humor

"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Emotion

"After having imposed itself on us like the egomaniac it is, clamouring about its own needs, foisting upon us its own sordid and perilous desires, the body's final trick is simply to absent itself. Just when you need it, just when you could use an arm or a leg, suddenly the body has other things to do. It falters, it buckles under you; it melts away as if made of snow, leaving nothing much. Two lumps of coal, an old hat, a grin made of pebbles. The bones dry sticks, easily broken."
Mortality

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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