"I grow numb; I grow stiff. How shall I break up this numbness which discredits my sympathetic heart?"
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"I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone."
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"Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm."
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"Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom."
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"It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning."
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"Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone."
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"Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?"
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"She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all."
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