h1ppOpotamus

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“You don’t realize it,” she said “but one day, this too will be the past and you will mourn it.”

— Sue Zhao

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"And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good."

— East of Eden

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"I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."

— Before Sunrise

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"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood"

— 1984

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“The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.”

— Shatter me 

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"For old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. Let's do it for the love that used to be here!! It is reason enough!!"

– @theorangepdf

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"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea"

— khalil gibran

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"You already know the story. You will die. Everyone you love will also die. You will lose them forever. You will be sad and angry. You will weep. You will bargain. You will make demands. You will beg. You will pray. It will make no difference. Nothing you can do will bring them back. You know this. Your knowing changes nothing. This poem will make you understand this unfathomable truth again and again, as if for the very first time."

— Emily Wilson, (La Iliada)

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"A dog that weeps after it kills is no better than a dog that doesn’t. Your guilt does not purify you." 

— unknown

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"‘Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. 'Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls - which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that's why we're so anxious to lose them, don't you think?"

— The Secret History

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

— George Bernard Shawn

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“None of it matters. Sacrifice and pain, the universe does not care." "You're wrong," she said. … "You're wrong because I'm part of the universe," she said. "A tiny piece, I admit, maybe never an important or mathematically significant one, but still a piece. You and I are not separate from it. No one is. It matters to me, everyone who's died and everyone who will, and everyone who suffers. As long as I exist, I will always care. And that means that part of the universe does." She smiled at him. "Doesn't that make it all a little brighter?"

— Alchemised

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"It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day."

— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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"We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them"

— George Eliot

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