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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 46m

DOLORES DEI - I always loved you for it -- but it could not save us. It could not make me stay.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - You would be right to drown this shit in alcohol. Drown it... until your neurons depolarize. Until it's gone, melted.

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

KIM KITSURAGI - “Press your damn cheek against Lamby, okay?” The lieutenant sounds authoritative -- and surprisingly gruff.

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

ENCYCLOPEDIA - The Antistar is (or was) a Vespertine rock and roll star, who liked to do drugs. He did so many drugs he eventually mutated -- into a corpse.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 3h

YOU - I can't forget it. Even when I drank so much...

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 4h

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5h

JOYCE MESSIER - “Indeed. There is a term of endearment they coined for it. In the Dolorian century, when humanity was *high* on this world, discovering more and more of it -- these archipelagos included...”

YOU - “What is it?”

JOYCE MESSIER - “Elysium.”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 6h

29-year-old wunder-twins Guy and Keith Joost are the stars of the show, with their bomber jackets and white sneakers -- head curators of this art exhibition. It's the wompty-dom-di-dommiest event of the year and all the cool kids have RSVP’d. Where are you, if you are not there?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 7h

EMPATHY - If you say 'Two days, maybe', it will be etched in her mind forever.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 8h

YOU - No one wants to *do* anything with me... no one wants to party with me.

KIM KITSURAGI - “Stay with me!” You feel burning hot tears streaming from your eyes.

YOU - I don't want to be anymore. It hurts.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 9h

DOLORES DEI - In conclusion -- you're ill. You're an old, insane man. And you have to be in hell until the end of your life. And I have to go to Mirova.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 10h

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Wanna hear what's stupid? Somewhere in a one room apartment on Boogie Street a young man shows Patrol Officer Tillbrook his genital warts, asking if they're *cancer*.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 11h

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - And when you fall we will come to raise you up, bud from you, banner-like, blossom from you and carry you apart in a sky funeral. In honour of your passing. (But not me, because I am just a leaf eater.)

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 12h

YOU - Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at?

SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 13h

SHIVERS - Revachol is the capital of the world. Jamrock is the capital of Revachol. Droplets form on your eyelashes.

INLAND EMPIRE - It's home.

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

“What, you've never seen a man getting a panic attack before?” (Try to keep breathing.)

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

Tell me, where are your friends? Human beings have friends, Harry-boy. Where the hell are yours?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 16h

YOU - “The people who built this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side.” (Tap on the tape recorder.)

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

INLAND EMPIRE - You focus on the hug and for a moment everything feels serene. You hear her heart beating -- or perhaps it's your own.

INLAND EMPIRE - I wonder how long has it been since you last hugged someone?

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

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Ah yes, 'protein mass' -- a scientific term from Graad, for a person terminally overexposed to the pale. Mouth open, catatonic, completely unable to return to the present.

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

PALEDRIVER - “They are someone's memories. What difference does it make if it's me or not? They're beautiful. That is all that matters. Beautiful and true -- and they will win. They're *coming* for this, you know… All of this.”

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

YOU - “Our lives are very different from each other.”

JOYCE MESSIER - “No doubt -- but we share the same time and position on the planet's crust. That counts for more than you'd think.”

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

And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you *know*. That the bourgeois are not human.

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

ACELE - Ah! No. This is a *contact microphone*, it's for recording *inside* solid objects. Contact Mike just beats people up.

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

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Funk is an aggressive resurgence of *The New* aesthetic of the Revacholian Thirties, but this time originating in Graad. It's brought there by the Iilmaraan diaspora. Funk is more masculine and guitar-oriented than disco. Even more *dangerous*.

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

PAYPHONE - You're not a revolutionary, Harry... You're drunk.

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