Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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“I have had a troublesome relationship with time. The past I cannot trust because it could be tainted by my memory. The future is hypothetical and should be treated with caution. The present—what is the present but a constant test: in this muddled in-between one struggles to understand what about oneself has to be changed, what accepted, what preserved. ”
Sayfa 5 - Penguin Books
“I wished, too, that life could be reset, but reset from when? From each point I could go to an earlier point: warning signs neglected, mistakes aggregated, but it was useless to do so, as I often ended up with the violent wish that I had never been born.”
Sayfa 6 - Penguin Books
“Some people are commonplace, others are not. A day spent with the latter leaves enough memory, more than years spent with the former. As an ordinary person, I count it as my luck to have spent a year with you.”
Sayfa 28 - Penguin Books
“What makes you sad? What makes you angry? What makes you forget the good things in your life and your responsibilities toward others? One hides from people who ask these unanswerable questions only to ask them oneself again and again.”
Sayfa 17 - Penguin Books
“I wished then and I wish now that I had never formed an attachment to anyone in the world either. I would be all kindness. I would not have done anything ruinous. I would never have to ask that question—when will I ever be good enough for you?—because by abolishing you, the opposite of I, I could erase that troublesome I from my narrative, too.”
Sayfa 33 - Penguin Books
“There is this emptiness in me. All the things in the world are not enough to drown out the voice of this emptiness that says: you are nothing.”
Sayfa 18 - Penguin Books
“I would have liked to be called a dreamer had I known how to dream.”
Sayfa 13 - Penguin Books