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

Maybe you should *stop* obsessing about your own -- and other people's -- sexuality? Feels like it’s about time to do that. You’ve thought about this for *eight hours*?! Not only should you stop, you should tell Kim you've stopped obsessing about other people's sexuality too.

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

Women like women too, officer. Try not to fixate on this. Let's move on.

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

COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - No -- well, not quite. The Moralintern never *intends* to violate another nation's sovereignty. That would be a serious violation of international law...

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

You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away -- turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.

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

TRUE LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY IN THE NEXT WORLD -- FOR NEW PEOPLE. IT IS TOO LATE FOR US.

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

ICE CREAM MAKER - Turning the crank feels oddly satisfying, like stirring your childhood dreams... In the distance you hear water dripping.

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

KIM KITSURAGI - “Harry... it explains *everything*. The running around. The jumping. The *shot-put*. Your inexplicable facial hair...”

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

ESPRIT DE CORPS - Kim Kitsuragi is a nice guy. Wish he was here right now.

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

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation.

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

ECHO MAKER - “Capital does not believe it can fail, which is why it must fail.”

VOLITION - So young. So *unbearably* young…

HALF LIGHT - Why do you see the two of them with their backs against a bullet-pocked wall, all of a sudden?

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

KORTENAER - “They fucking put Lely in a leaf compactor and now these cunts finished the job...” He waves at the gang huddled by the doors.

PAIN THRESHOLD - There's real anguish in his voice. A drunken sadness suddenly engulfs him. Memories...

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

JOYCE MESSIER - It wasn't a *who*, but a *what*. A pandemic of tzaraath, a particularly virulent prion disease, which the authorities in Graad proved unable to contain. Then Mazov came along and overthrew the government.

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

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Oh man, he looks so devastatingly *cool* with that cigarette.

YOU - “How did you get so cool, Kim?”

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

SHIVERS - GO TO THE CHILDREN OF THE BIG SEA.

RHETORIC - The big sea…The Big C? That can only mean one thing - Communism.

YOU - Yes, Comrade Zephyr. I shall find them. Girl Child Revolution and Girl Child Communism!

SHIVERS - BOY CHILD FREEDOM. BOY CHILD JUSTICE.

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

MAP WALL - The ocean breaks apart into a tangle of cosines and azimuths, all pointing into pale nothingness. *Mundi* is the north azimuth; *Graad* is the northeast azimuth; *Samara* is the east azimuth; *Seol* is the west azimuth. *Isolas*, they're called.

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

INLAND EMPIRE - His corpse is marked by stars.

YOU - What will mine be marked by?

INLAND EMPIRE - Alcohol and heartbreak.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Your fist clenches suddenly.

YOU - It will be riddled with disco.

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

LITTLE LILY - I don't say bad words. Lamby doesn't either.

HALF LIGHT - FUCK OFF.

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

VOLITION - You got up from this floor because of a holy vow you made sixteen years ago. With *me*. To wake up exactly 07:30 every morning until the day you die.

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

YOU - “Lamby looks soft.”

LITTLE LILY - “Yes. Very soft.” Suddenly she pushes the stuffed animal toward your face.

YOU - “I don't deserve it. I'm scum.”

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

CHESTER MCLAINE - “Mack, they're *hetero-sexual life partners*. It's not like that,” his partner smirks. “But yeah. There's trouble in paradise for that duo, Tequila Sunset has...” The sound of the rain grows so loud it drowns out his voice.

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

DOLORES DEI - We don't have anything to talk about anymore. Every combination of words has been played out. The atoms don't form us anymore: us, our love, our unborn daughters...

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

No, I need to go back to a time when *love* was still possible.

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

VOLITION - Really? Quick, tell me what's under her jumpsuit?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - GLORY. TRUTH. SOFTNESS. PROTECT HER. SHE WANTS YOU.

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

YOU - Kim, why did I call that woman a whore, just now?

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

When life closes a door, it opens a window. And if the fall is too steep, use the fire exit. Run to the roof -- you always have that airship on the dock. The most important thing is to keep moving. Keep dreaming.

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