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The Discomfort of Evening

by Lucas Rijneveld

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Vėl žemės ilgesy

by Vytautas Mačernis

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Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

by Dean Spade

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inkedblues’s Quotes

“I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: despair

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“A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

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“To English it was amazing how a song will take a whole confused epoch in your life, and fashion it into something sharp and elegant with which to pierce your neck.”
― Denis Johnson, Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

tags: discovery-of-oneself, god, mental-illness, music, suicide

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“It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles

tags: children, life

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“Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: death, humour, philosophical

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