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After the painter kills himself, leaving a note that does little to explain why he does not want to live any longer, Claudio can naturally think of nothing else except the infernal “Why?”

“The only things I regret, and the only things I’ll ever regret are things I didn’t do. In the end, that’s what we mourn. The paths we didn’t take. The people we didn’t touch.”

“She might be just a plain little girl, but she certainly wasn’t a sissy.”

Before, he had taken great pride in how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had become so thoughtless about the others.

“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”

“Go out each day with the attitude that something good is going to happen to you.”

“They were forcing him to be silent. They didn’t want to hear him. They weren’t interested in anything but getting him off their minds.”

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different...”

“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.”