I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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Zum Autor"I don't dream. Come to think of it, I haven't had any dreams in a long time."
"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
"My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it."
"I'm going to live to be twenty-five,' she said, 'then die."
"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."
"To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence."