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“But how long can something like that last? Eventually, you’ll burn out or die. If you burn out, it’s like you have to start your life back at the beginning. You have to give up”
― Lex J. Grootelaar, Punk

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“the things that gave you life. But then all you do is just replace those things with something else.” “Yeah, just start another fiction. There is no true road.”
― Lex J. Grootelaar, Punk

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