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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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― Giovanni’s Room
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― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.”
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“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― The Poet X
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― The Poet X
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