You do. [He laughs, completely humourlessly.] But if there's happiness, there's also pain and misery, if there's joy, there's pain and monotany, and if there's love...
Nothing hurts more than love. It's torture, plain and simple.
[Then he falls silent.]
But it's all... a good kind of hurt, I suppose. I like the world, for all it's fucked up contradictions. But living in it's an ongoing trial. Death? Death's just the release of all that. It's an ending but it has to end or else all that buildup's just for sod all.
There's a reason the french call a climax the little death, you know?
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Nothing hurts more than love. It's torture, plain and simple.
[Then he falls silent.]
But it's all... a good kind of hurt, I suppose. I like the world, for all it's fucked up contradictions. But living in it's an ongoing trial. Death? Death's just the release of all that. It's an ending but it has to end or else all that buildup's just for sod all.
There's a reason the french call a climax the little death, you know?