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“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“The fool is happy that he knows no more”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man