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Emelie

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“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
― Alain de Botton

tags: emotions, film, humanity, philosophy

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“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

tags: poetry

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“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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“We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

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