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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 1h

SHIVERS - Somewhere in La Delta, numbers flip and whirl on the giant split-flap boards of the stock exchange, marking gains the size of Kemi SR's entire economy. Radiocomputers hum below to the tune of gambling.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 4h

AUTHORITY - Fists down, everybody. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Goddamn *no one* tells you to put your fists down!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 7h

COMPOSURE - Could he be…a member of the *homo-sexual underground*? PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Yes, this man is definitely one of the homos, I've seen them homos with my own eyes.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 10h

HALF LIGHT - You're a GOD. An angry but JUST God.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 13h

SHIVERS - Somewhere West, small bubbles rise from a plastic ball floating in the water -- rusty, the colour of over-steeped tea. Long, spindly arms are spinning the buoy around, turning it, inspecting it like a magic eight-ball, trying to find a way to snap it open…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 16h

HALF LIGHT - Fucking shit, I'm scared. What do I do? Who do I call? COMPOSURE - Don't go grabbing at your chest and screaming bloody murder. Keep your cool.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 19h

VISUAL CALCULUS - It's the night of March 4th and a shot has just been fired. The man looks directly at the woman. The shot's possible directions converge in his mouth -- a ray cast from somewhere outside, entering his brain. ENDURANCE - Ending him.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 22h

YOU - Are there people in there? SHIVERS - Yes, people hard at work at their desks. They can barely tell if it's day or night anymore because the lights in the building are so uniform and bright. Who knows when they'll come out?

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YOU - Look around you. SHIVERS - The snow falls lazily, making the beach sand paler still, mixing with the rust-coloured sewage run-off.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - “This is a great way to get around -- it's fun, it's safe, and it gives me lots of time to think…” ENDURANCE - Wouldn't say it's exactly *safe* now -- but financially secure individuals are known adrenaline junkies.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ENDURANCE - There's nothing else she can do for you, but this isn't the end of the line. No, there's one more kingsman to confront. YOU - Who? ENDURANCE - *YOU*.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YOU - “There is no other way.” KIM KITSURAGI - Silence. He tilts his head to the side, inspecting you. A brief moment passes, then… HALF LIGHT - The pressure in the room grows to a boiling point.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YOU - Where's the sound coming from? SHIVERS - Every lightswitch, every motor carriage, every doorbell, tea kettle, and radio in Martinaise, all mingled with electrical interference caused by scattered thunderstorms over Ozonne.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

THE HANGED MAN - The corpse looks ageless, like meat on a hook. ENDURANCE - Teeming with opportunistic micro-organisms, letting out a foul-smelling diamine compound.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YOU - Solved it. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Officially, it was the three metres tall stick insect who solved it.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

KIM KITSURAGI - “You could use some ammonia -- to clear your head.” YOU - “But not you?” KIM KITSURAGI - “I can't handle the headache.” ENDURANCE - It's more likely he can handle the smell. Unlike you.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YOU - “Fuck.” LILIENNE'S TWIN - The boy blinks. “Fffff…” Despite his efforts, the unfamiliar word catches in his mouth. ELECTROCHEMISTRY - COME ON BOYS, YOU CAN DO IT!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YOU - “The swallow -- it's how it starts. It's baby pale.” SOONA, THE PROGRAMMER - “But…” She looks up, and there's fear in her eyes as she considers the possibility. “But pale isn't here. We're thousands of kilometres from the edge.” HALF LIGHT - That comforts her.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SHIVERS - Three men are standing on a wooden platform extending out from the shore of a dilapidated fishing village, their cheeks red, spirits high, beers in hand, eyes glazed over.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - The antennae hang from a great height. With your hand shaking you barely touch the tip of the left whisker. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Looks like someone's got hurt in a fight. This antennae is much smaller than the other one.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PAIN THRESHOLD - Yes, your pain is real. The pain of a tree is mute and base and uninteresting.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YOU - Her face… SHIVERS - …is red from the cold. She's breathing on her fingers clasping the plan. Traces of sadness are visible in her expression.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - You've *definitely* earned a drink after this. Perhaps even some *pagan rites*.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - He existed alright. You feel it deep within your basal ganglia. He was as real as you are… YOU - What the fuck are you talking about?

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

SHIVERS - The sky is full of great battleships. White clouds collide with one another, and the world is drenched with their debris.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YOU - Before that? Before the curtains are drawn… SHIVERS - The Bay of Revachol, vastness, great depth -- over 1200m at its deepest. Water, air brinier than here. It is crisscrossed by huge cargo ships bearing company logos: Wild Pines, ZAMM, Moriyn.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

YOU - What's a prybar? PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Prybar, crowbar, leverage displacement tool of the gods. Your hands have held its paint-flaked metal one hundred thousand times.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

KLAASJE - “I have to lie *all the time*…I'm so tired of it.” ENDURANCE - She's not lying now. She really is very tired. Her metabolism is failing her, the afterglow of whatever narcotics she's been taking is wearing off.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

KIM KITSURAGI - “'Count C,' for its popularity among the aristocratic class of the prior century…” ELECTROCHEMISTRY - HE'S TALKING ABOUT COCAINE, BABY.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - This 'pale' sounds like it's the *shit*.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

PAIN THRESHOLD - You force the rest of the sentence out through pain, thick as molasses, no longer able to hear yourself speak.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

SHIVERS - Aside from getting naked, you're not sure what else to do.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

YOU - “You're all drunk, look at yourselves!” KORTENAER - “Yes…So what?” ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Yeah. So what. You should be drunk too. Or, like, *drunker*. You don't want to die sober do you?

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - Only a former gym teacher can think these thoughts and drink so much. YOU - Gym teacher?

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SHIVERS - I'VE SEEN YOU WITH HER -- AND I'VE SEEN YOU WITHOUT HER. I'VE SEEN YOU ON THE CRESCENT OF THE HILL.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SHIVERS - On Clinton Street, near the Boogie Street Diamond, a small truck rattles down an alleyway. It stops by a rusted trash container. Two men, their faces rough and swollen, jump out. They look at the container, despondently.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SHIVERS - The cold is deep under your skin, as if you were talking to someone who's a hundred years away.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU - I hope they're working for the glory of Revachol, at least. SHIVERS - Could be. Not sure they remember what they're working for anymore themselves…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YOU - “Why did he hang himself?” ALICE - “Celebrity problems.” ELECTROCHEMISTRY - She means pills and alcohol. See, pills and alcohol make you *a celebrity*.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ENDURANCE - It's time you knew the truth, bröther. YOU - I am ready. ENDURANCE - Love…time…Revachol…It's all shit. YOU - All of it? ENDURANCE - *All* of it.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SHIVERS - Coalition aerostatics hang like apparitions under the cloud cover. Way up there -- where rain forms -- rotors flutter silently.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

KIM KITSURAGI - “So -- what do you think?” HALF LIGHT - *I* think he's dead -- and about to explode.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - She'll age faster in prison than she was partying. A pity. INLAND EMPIRE - There was a longing in her for some sort of denouement, but it's unlikely that it was this…turning prematurely grey while being escorted from interrogation room to interrogation room…

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

KIM KITSURAGI - He looks at the roundabout. SHIVERS - The lights of the orphan district are reflected in his glasses: the red and golden orbs of the motorway sliding like pearls on a string, from East to West, as Revachol commutes back to the suburbs.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WORKING CLASS WOMAN - “Thank you for telling me, officer…” She looks down. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT - These are her last reserves of strength. Her muscles will give in soon. Already she starts to shake.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MEDICINAL PURPOSES OF THE PALE - When you meditate, are you in the nude? YOU - Oh, yeah. Buck naked. MEDICINAL PURPOSES OF THE PALE - Excellent. ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Free your body!

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YOU - What will be the repercussions if I take that sip? ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Nothing. Some *mental* stuff. Nothing to be worried about.

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disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

THE DESERTER - “Why don't you ask them to give you *real* weapons?” He chortles. “Going against automatic rifles with these toy guns…of course you got those boys killed!” HALF LIGHT - Damn, he saw you. He's watched it happen.

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