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Exhaustion

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2015.02.05

The Girl's almost sleeping through the night, now. By almost I mean, only waking once or twice to cry, and usually only needing her mum half the time.

Which has meant that we're mostly sleeping, too. For the first time since the child was born, I don't have that windy feeling of exhaustion, like there's a steady breeze blowing through my head where my brain is supposed to be.

It's nice.

rand()m quote

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov