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Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up,_ Harry recounted. __e must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw snowballs at him, shouted __uttfucker_ then ran like mad, convinced he would give us one up the backside if he caught us. But he never came after us, just pulled his hat further down over his ears and walked home. One day, suddenly, he moved. He never did anything to me, and I__e always wondered why I hated him so much.___eople are afraid of what they don__ understand. And hate what they__e afraid of.

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn__ possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that__ not true. Maybe they don__ want to live like other people _ it just wouldn__ suit them.

But perhaps that's why we take snaps...to provide false evidence to underpin the false claim that we were happy. Because the thought that we weren't happy at least for some time during our lives is unbearable. Adults order children to smile in the photos, involve them in the lie, so we smile, we feign happiness.

Are you dying?"Cato lit his cigarette. "It's not acute, perhaps, but we're all dying, Harry.

Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to dare to look at them long and hard until you know that is what they are. Ghosts. Lifeless, powerless ghosts.

Sometimes you don__ know what you__e looking for until you find it,_ Harry answered. __t__ a methodology.

What do we mean by __razy_? What do we mean by __ad_? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Can you feel it? The vibration? It__ the energy from everyone around us. It__ in the air. If you__e dying and you think no one can save you, just go out and stretch your arms into the air and absorb some of the energy. You can have eternal life. It__ true!- Runa Molnes

Just imagine walking away from something you__e started. Something you really believed would be good. I don__ think i could ever do that.

Hurt? He'll never be hurt__e's made to other people.

Smoking__ banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body,_ he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.

no one is as they seem, and most of life, apart from honest betrayal, is lies and deceit. And the day we discover we are no different is the day we no longer want to live.

And what__ your unhappiness due to, Harry?The words came out before he had time to think. __oving someone who loves me.