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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace
Age: 45 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 21
Died: 2008
Died: February 12
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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.
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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
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I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
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Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.
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