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I’m sitting there watching the news with the latest tragedy playing out in front of me and my own life is a complete mess and the people around me need help, but all I can think about is bodies and fucking and relationships. It makes me
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“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
― Laughable Loves
― Laughable Loves
“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“She was a whirling cloud of death, a queen of shadows, and these men were already carrion.”
― Queen of Shadows
― Queen of Shadows
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It ia a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.”
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“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
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