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"We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass [...] What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?"

— Mary Ann Evans

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"I will tell them that happy things that don't exist can be more painful than sad things that exist."

"Je leur dirai que les choses heureuses qui n'existent pas peuvent être plus douloureuses que les choses tristes qui existent."

- Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay

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"If people appeared to behave pointlessly in grief, it was only because human life was pointless, and this was the truth that grief revealed."

- Sally Rooney

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"hope is the correct response to the strange, often terrifying miracle of consciousness. Hope is not easy or cheap. It is true."

- John Green

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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

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"April is the cruelest month, breeding

lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

memory and desire, stirring

dull roots with spring rain."

- T.S. Eliot

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"What's with these superficial people from my past?

Dancin' 'round the fact

I did everything the motherfuckers bet against

They be like " Gather 'round, place your bets!

This young man won't ever be shit!"

Well my bad, I guess I just pursued this shit

While you chose to settle down to have some kids

I mean, it's okay to fall in line, just don't look back

That's a long ass line that I'm not in"

- Joba

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"Who got the feeling?

Tell me why I cry when I feel it

Tell me why, tell me why"

- Brockhampton

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"Some people have angels, what if only shadows follow you?

And all the ghosts inside that seem to hollow you

The branches of the weeping willow start to swallow you

And then you realize you're exactly where you're supposed to be

The horizon clears, you wipe the tears

And all the skeletons are ready for your story"

- Dom McLennon

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"My boyfriend hates me, won't let me meet his parents

Says my skin might scare 'em, not afraid of my appearance

Feel like jumping off the building

Feel like saying 'fuck your parents'"

- Kevin Abstract

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"It feels like I can see the past in your eyes

I know the future has been passing you by

These other niggas, they just passing your time

They don't know how to ride the tidal waves that crash in your thighs"

- Dom McLennon

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"Stripped down to my skin and my bones

I love huskies but I feel like a wolf (howl!)

In a pack but I feel all alone"

- Matt Champion

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"Sweaty palms as I walk down this empty road

I got a mom but we ain't spoke and I don't know

I had a heart that don't speak to me anymore

And life get hard but these last days mean many more"

- Kevin Abstract

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"But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.

Beauty is the shadow of imperfection."

- Simon Van Booy

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"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

- James Baldwin

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"For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it."

- Margaret Atwood

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"Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure."

- Albert Camus