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| Law student | Lyme Warrior | 🐝

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[quotespile]

“It’s exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”

— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook

[quotespile]

“Who on earth would not long to be fought for? Is this not the very heart of human existence, to be worth fighting for, worth losing everything for?”

— Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

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"I think that the truth is I'm scared. I think that I'm just scared to live... I think that the truth is I'm everything that I hate."

Senses Fail, "Angela Baker And My Obsession With Fire"

[hatin]

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[schmergo]

Downton Abbey is wild because the stakes are always either SUPER low or crazy high. It’s like, one episode is, “Who will win the gardening contest at the fair? Is the countess cheating?” And another episode is, “The eldest daughter’s fiancé died in the Titanic, then she hooked up with a Turkish diplomat, her first ever sexual experience, and he DIED IN HER BED DURING THE CONJUGAL ACT, and now she has to move his corpse back to his bed without being of suspected of murder, BECAUSE IT COULD START A WAR, and also if people find out she’s ‘damaged goods’ and she can’t find an advantageous match, her family will LOSE THEIR ANCESTRAL HOME!” Then the show’s like, “A maid wants to become a secretary! Will she beat the odds?”

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[philosophybits]

“She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words

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[philosophybits]

“The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers (via quotespile)

[philosophybits]

“At the centre of the human heart, is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.”

— Simone Weil, “Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation”