“Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn’t need to take the one and only outfit he’d worn.”
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“My memories have turned into anxieties.”
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
“I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”