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enjoy yourself

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you can’t keep what doesn’t want to stay.

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You will never understand what I had.

And I will be okay.

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you’ve been like this for quite a while

do you remember what it was like before?

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I close my eyes and burn down my world, breathe in the ash, and rebuild.

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I don’t remember

I can’t remember

Why won’t I remember

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I hate you

[easygoingaestheticmower]

Let’s play pretend

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there was nothing

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If love could kill

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to live in a love that was promised to be returned,

and to wait,

and wait,

and wait,

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memories that don’t belong to me

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and then I became a wandering corpse of my own actions

[easygoingaestheticmower]

your tears are showing

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this was never my story

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What’s stopping you?

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Make a choice

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“It's difficult to explain, but when I'm drawing I feel the existence of what I call ‘gravity’.

In other words, while you might think that as an author I have utter control over the actions of the main characters by the progression of the story, or the world in which I make them live, it's not always like this, and at some moments it is the characters who act against my will. Through this method, some drawings have come out that I didn't want to make in the first place. That is how ‘gravity’ manifests itself, which I also assimilate to ‘fate’.

When you read this last volume of Stone Ocean, I'd like you to think a little about this.”

Hirohiko Araki, 2003