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"Sometimes I didn't think the world was worth it.Saving.Sometimes I didn't think I was worth it either."
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"She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment."

"After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."

"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."

"Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza i cavalli,che quando si sentono accaldati e affaticati, si aprono istintivamente una vena, per respirare piA1 liberamente. Spesso anche io vorrei aprirmi una vena che mi desse libertA eterna."

"Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me: but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations. It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows."

"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."
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"My mother was lost to me, but I wasn't lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry."

"Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life."

"I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid."

"I am the Lilum. Time. Truth. Destiny. The Endless River. The Wheel of Fate. You do not command me."

"The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are."

"Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind."
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