We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining. And because we knew what we had lost but weren't as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.
Janne TellerThe door smiled. It was the first time I'd seen it do that. Pierre Anthon left the door ajar like a grinning abyss that would swallow me up into the outside with him if only I let myself go. Smiling at whom? At me, at us. I looked around the class. The uncomfortable silence told me the others had felt it too.
We were supposed to amount to something.
To be sure, there were still a lot of people against us, but the very intensity of the fight over the meaning of the heap of meaning could only indicate that the matter was of the greatest significance. And significance was the same as meaning, and the greatest significance was therefore the same as the greatest meaning.
And I only doubted a tiny little bit.
Without knowing exactly what, I knew that the fire was something that had to do with the meaning. I decided I wasn't going to forget it, no matter what happened. No matter that the fire wasn't something that could be added to the heap, or that I was ever going to be able to explain in any way to Pierre Anthon.
Janne TellerMeaning is not something you can sell
Janne TellerIt's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.
Janne TellerMots clés death-and-dying
...we knew that everything was more about how it appeared than how it was. The most important thing, in any circumstance, was to amount to something that really looked like it was something.
Janne TellerMots clés mattering
If something's worth getting upset about, then there must be something worth getting happy about. And if something's worth getting happy about, then there must be something that matters. But there isnt!.. In a few years you'll all be dead and forgotten and diddly-squat, nothing, so you might just as well start getting used to it!
Janne TellerMots clés death-and-dying
Even if you learn something and think you're good at it, there'll always be someone who's better.
Janne TellerYou go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with?
Janne TellerMots clés work
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