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  • #1
    “Sometimes the things
    that matter to you won’t matter
    to anyone but you. And that’s redemption.”
    ― Gabrielle Calvocoressi
    tags: importance, poem, poetry, redemption, significance
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  • #2
    “You're not the first or last I've lied to, I'm lying to myself right now, You're still here...”
    ― Alejandro Escovedo
    tags: sister-lost-soul
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  • #3
    John Banville
    “The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
    ― John Banville, The Sea
    tags: memories, past
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  • #4
    Harold Pinter
    “There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.”
    ― Harold Pinter, Old Times
    tags: false, falsehood, memory, recollection, truth
    426 likes

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  • #5
    Shirley Jackson
    “Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: shiver
    378 likes

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  • #6
    Claire Keegan
    “You don’t ever have to say anything,” he says. “Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.”
    ― Claire Keegan, Foster
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  • #8
    “That's not fair. That's not fair at all. There was time now. There was, was all the time I needed... - Harry Bemis”
    ― Burgess Meredith
    tags: twilight-zone
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  • #9
    “I wanna watch the ocean bend
    the edges of the sun then
    I wanna get swallowed up in
    An ocean of love”
    ― Lucinda Williams
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  • #10
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: catatonia, coma, life
    3341 likes

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  • #11
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: self-realization
    2156 likes

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  • #12
    Ivan Turgenev
    “It seemed to me both that I had known her for a long time and that I had known nothing and had not lived before she came.”
    ― Ivan Turgenev
    tags: first-love, ivan-turgenev
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