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Michaela Florio

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“These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
― Plato, The Symposium

tags: completeness, love, wholeness

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“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.”
― Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

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“We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

tags: hamlet, hidden-meaning, truthiness

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“People think it's just forgetting your keys, she says. Or the words for things. But there are the personality changes. The mood swings. The
hostility and even violence. Even from the gentlest person in the world. You lose the person you love. And you are left with the shell... And you are expected to go on loving them even when they are no longer there. You are supposed to be loyal. It’s not
that other people expect it. It’s that you expect it of yourself. And you long for it to be over soon.”
― Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind

tags: alzheimer-s, turn-of-mind

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