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“It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position [to do this]: going backwards.”
― Journals and Papers
― Journals and Papers
“Fuck my stupid baka life”
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“I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“You've been a part of me forever. Don't you know that? I breathe your name in every exhalation.”
― Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
― Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script
“I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.”
― Mandarins: Stories
― Mandarins: Stories
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