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Across many a bad night*

My years in America, more or less.

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Hello? God?

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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Beyond Good and Evil’

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‘Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.’ —Henry Miller, ‘Tropic of Capricorn’

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