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" It is fragile, the human body. Only so little it can withstand. Maybe the reason for it is that the air is heavy enough on it. Second after second, 17.000 kilograms of it weigh on each of us: as much as four grown elephants. The internal pressure of our cells ensures that the bare air on our bodies won’t crush us: that our tissue won’t turn blue, won’t swell up, won’t burst or bleed out, regardless of the weight it has to carry. Everything on top of this, might just be too much. We take 17.000 kilograms of air, without even noticing, but cannot withstand the slightest blow to our heads, the tiniest kick to our stomachs, the merest pressure on our minds, without jeopardising our lives. "
― Sima B. Moussavian , Tomorrow death died out: What if the future were past?
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" It's always the same with relationships: as if they were a fancy sheepskin jacket, you would get yourself some in order to stay warm on cold winter nights and show them off a bit. At first, they would fit perfectly until they would suddenly become too loose, too tight, too long, too short and from then on you wouldn't look after them any more.
You would stop taking care of them, throw up all over them on the next binge and when you'd wake up in the morning, the whole house would stink like wet sheep and stomach acid. Sooner rather than later, they would end up in the old clothes container and although you'd promise yourself that next time you'd buy the expensive care product that the saleswoman with the fake smile tried to sell you last time, you'd still not do it, because it sounds effort and who would put any into something which they would end up losing, anyway?
~ As the moon began to rust "
― Sima B. Moussavian