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The Shining Explored: A psychoanalytic interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining

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Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

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Last Love, let me never roll out of this heavy dream of you, let the day I was born mean my life will end where you end let the man behind the church do what he did if it brings me to you. Let the girls in the locker room corner me again if ...more

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“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

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“Where words fail, music speaks.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

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“No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

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