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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 19m

PALEDRIVER - “The look on her face -- like an orgasm. The wound in her chest. My hand in my father's hand...” She closes her eyes, her eyelids trembling. “Except I never had a father. And I never shot Her Innocence Dolores Dei.”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 14h

SHIVERS - There should be something here -- a memory, a feeling, even if it's just a glimpse -- but the depths of your psyche remain silent. You don't have a single memory of your mother.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15h

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”

Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 17h

And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 18h

On a street there that flows like a muddy river in the snow, with fire traps rising on either side. A film rental opens its doors to the rain, an armoured motor carriage rushes past the corner where you used to walk together... Suddenly, the hair on your back rises.

SHIVERS - YOU CANNOT RETURN

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 19h

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 20h

SUGGESTION - They're leaving. They're all turning away from you.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No. You can figure it out. *Replace* it! Replace the alcohol with amphetamine. Or GBL! Fuck it -- morphine! Graffito removal agent! Anything. It'll buy you time. All you need is time.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 21h

HALF LIGHT - Look at his shit-eating grin... He knows there's nothing you can do to him. He's bullying you and you are helpless. Kill him. Kill him now. He won't see death coming.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 22h

KIM KITSURAGI - “We might need your help with something later,” he adds, suddenly regaining his confidence.

AUTHORITY - As if he recalled that he's, in fact, a decorated police lieutenant, and not a naughty boy.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - The two aren't mutually exclusive.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23h

YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

You're *pursued* by a hunter. Smelling of apricots and sorrow. And the past.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - I'm not drunk or high, I'm just... hurt... why does it hurt to talk to you?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

Hard facts from the man you are. You once jerked off in the locker room and were caught. You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will. That's right, these are not flights of fancy. These are *real deeds*, Harry

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Hold on, is architecture also art?

CONCEPTUALIZATION - Of course not, it's autism. Box-drawing. Masturbation with a ruler and a sextant or whatever they use. You should demean and criticize the genteel institution of architecture. While extolling the virtues of the *pure* arts.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

VOLITION - Any plan to call him Pinball or Kimball is immediately wiped from your neocortex, as if with some sort of mind altering device. It is simply not going to happen.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger.

ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

INLAND EMPIRE - So tell me, how does it feel -- to be close to someone, skin to skin?

YOU - It's good, but I'd prefer a man. A solid muscularity would support me better.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

MEASUREHEAD - AND THE WOMEN. WOMEN WHO SHAVE AND ARE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS LIKE POLYAMORY AND *COITUS CASUALIS* -- THE KOJKO AND THEIR PROMISCUITY ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL THAT.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

YOU - Revachol was founded to resolve history. It's the most important city in the world.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

KIM KITSURAGI - Never fuck with Kim Kitsuragi.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2d

JOYCE MESSIER - Don't worry, Kras Mazov shot fifteen million people in the head. But that was all the way over in Graad.

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