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    Ocean Vuong
    “Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “What were you before you met me?"
    "I think I was drowning"
    "And what are you now?"
    "Water”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: life, love, poetry
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    Ocean Vuong
    “All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
    Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: beauty, violence, war
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    Ocean Vuong
    “To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Maybe we pray on our knees because god only listens when we’re this close to the devil.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Ocean Vuong
    “The one good thing about national anthems is that we’re already on our feet, and therefore ready to run. The truth is one nation, under drugs, under drones.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Isn’t that the saddest thing in the world, Ma? A comma forced to be a period?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “What is a country but a life sentence?”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: beauty, beauty-quotes, life, love
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    Ocean Vuong
    “When our lips touched the day closed
    into a coffin. In the museum of the heart...”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Maybe in the next life we’ll meet each other for the first time—believing in everything but the harm we’re capable of.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
    tags: harm, life, love
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    Ocean Vuong
    “He laughs despite knowing he has ruined every beautiful thing just to prove beauty cannot change him.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The text has disappeared under the interpretation.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: interpretation, misinterpretation, misunderstanding, subtext
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
    tags: christianity, cupid, eros, love, poison, vice
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
    tags: loneliness
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: 329, raskolnikov, sonia, suffering
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    Alfred Tennyson
    “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”
    ― Alfred Tennyson
    tags: friendship, love
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    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
    ― Blaise Pascal
    tags: heart, love, quip, reason
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    Elie Wiesel
    “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: deep, friendship, life, love, obsession, sharing
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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