“Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. ”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
“I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“there are only two kinds of flights: ones in which you die and ones in which you do not.”
― Calypso
― Calypso
“I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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