Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
Because I don__ care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here__ the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence _ of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do _ is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous __ur Town_ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life You Are Too Wonderful To Grasp, &c. For me _ and I__l keep repeating it doggedly till I die, till I fall over on my ungrateful nihilistic face and am too weak to say it: better never born, than born into this cesspool. Sinkhole of hospital beds, coffins, and broken hearts. No release, no appeal, no __o-overs_ to employ a favored phrase of Xandra__, no way forward but age and loss, and no way out but death.
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Because I don__ care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here__ the truth: life is a catastrophe. The basic fact of existence _ of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do _ is a catastrophe. Forget all this ridiculous __ur Town_ nonsense everyone talks: the miracle of a newborn babe, the joy of one simple blossom, Life You Are Too Wonderful To Grasp, &c. For me _ and I__l keep repeating it doggedly till I die, till I fall over on my ungrateful nihilistic face and am too weak to say it: better never born, than born into this cesspool. Sinkhole of hospital beds, coffins, and broken hearts. No release, no appeal, no __o-overs_ to employ a favored phrase of Xandra__, no way forward but age and loss, and no way out but death.
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