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61 " ¿Vos entendés que no tenés pensamiento propio, que lo único que haces es seguir las normas que te imponen? ¿Vos entendés que todo esto que estás haciendo es un acto vacío? ¿Podes llegar a sentir algo de verdad, vos? ¿Alguna vez lo quisiste a papá? "
― Agustina Bazterrica , Tender is the Flesh
62 " What we sell is dead. Its rotting and apparently people don’t want to accept that. "
63 " There’s a vibration, a subtle and fragile heat, that makes a living being particularly delicious. You’re extracting life by the mouthful. It’s the pleasure of knowing that because of your intent, your actions, this being has ceased to exist. It’s the feeling of a complex and precious organism expiring little by little, and also becoming part of you. "
64 " He valued the answer and didn’t ask for an explanation because Sergio’s words are simple, clear. They’re words that don’t have sharp edges. "
65 " He can't help but shudder when one of the man's fingernails grazes his hand. He pulls it away quickly, unable to hide his disgust, unwilling to look Urlet in the eye, because he's afraid that the presence, the entity that lives under the man's skin, will cease clawing at him and be set free. Is it the soul of a being Urlet ate alive, one that got trapped inside him? he wonders. "
66 " The human being is complex and I find the vile acts, contradictions, and sublimities characteristic of our condition astonishing "
67 " His brain warns him that there are words that cover up the world. "