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"I would be fully supportive of this if it didn't involve cheating 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️My friend, YOUR WIFE JUST GAVE BIRTH TO YOUR FIRST CHILD!!" — Jan 16, 2026 08:06PM
"I would be fully supportive of this if it didn't involve cheating 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️My friend, YOUR WIFE JUST GAVE BIRTH TO YOUR FIRST CHILD!!" — Jan 16, 2026 08:06PM
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"This is taking me ages because I keep having to return it to the library and I'm not all that attached to the characters (and I'm too busy nowadays to maintain my old reading habits :'(( ) but I'll keep going" — Jan 16, 2025 07:32AM
"This is taking me ages because I keep having to return it to the library and I'm not all that attached to the characters (and I'm too busy nowadays to maintain my old reading habits :'(( ) but I'll keep going" — Jan 16, 2025 07:32AM
“I’ve seen the spring now and I’m going to see the summer. I’m going to see everything grow here. I’m going to grow here myself.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“What I mean is, even an ordinary guy like me sometimes can think that everything is pointless. Why do I wake up and eat? It all ends up shit in the end. Why do I go to school and study? Even in the unlikely chance that I become successful in the future, I’m still going to die. You can dress nice and make people envious, or get rich, but none of it means anything. It doesn’t mean a damn thing. Anyway, maybe such meaninglessness is appropriate for this shitty nation.
But—and here’s the ‘but'—you and me, we have other emotions like happiness, right? We can find enjoyment. It’s nothing that amounts to much—but isn’t that what fills the emptiness inside us? At least for me, that’s the only answer I know.”
― Battle Royale
But—and here’s the ‘but'—you and me, we have other emotions like happiness, right? We can find enjoyment. It’s nothing that amounts to much—but isn’t that what fills the emptiness inside us? At least for me, that’s the only answer I know.”
― Battle Royale
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:”
― Where the World Ends
― Where the World Ends
“But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present”
― Babel
― Babel
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