A moment was the most you could expect from perfection.
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| — | Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk) |
‘There’s always a chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.’
And I yelled back, So what else is new?
And, Tell me something I don’t know.
And I yelled back, So what else is new?
And, Tell me something I don’t know.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor. (via admiralzacpower) |
As unpleasant as death might seem, the upside is that you only suffer it once. Subsequent to that, the sting is gone. The memory might be enormously traumatic, but that’s all it is: a memory.
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| — | DAMNED, Chuck Palahniuk, p.157 (via justjoshinu714) |
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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-Haunted (Chuck Palahniuk) favourite book by him. |
How torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.
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| — | Choke, Palahniuk (via fuckyahchuckpalahniuk) |
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell.
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| — | Chuck Palahniuk (via bexring) |
Even the garden of Eden was just a big fancy cage. You’ll be a slave the rest of your life unless you bite the apple.
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| — | Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk) |
Death is a long process,” Archer says. “Your body is just the first part of you that croaks.” Meaning: Beyond that, your dreams have to die. Then your expectations. And your anger about investing a lifetime in learning shit and loving people and earning money, only to have all that crap come to basically nothing. Really, your physical body dying is the easy part. Beyond that, your memories must die. And your ego. Your pride and shame and ambition and hope, all that Personal Identity Crap can take centuries to expire.
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| — | Damned - Chuck Palahniuk |
Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It’s a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them
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| — | Damned - Chuck Palahniuk |
