"I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses."

Despair, Death, Creation, Pain, Struggle

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"I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses."

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"Widow. The word consumes itself."

Relationship

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."

Love

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

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"I talk to God but the sky is empty."

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"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."

Time

"I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed."

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