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Such instant bonding with another creature is something I can’t quite imagine. A mother is supposed to feel that way about her child, but what if she doesn’t? What if she looks at her child and does not recognize it? What if the screaming
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“This could be their life together, each moment, shared, passed back and forth between each other to alleviate the pressure, the awful pressure of having to hold time for oneself. This is perhaps why people get together in the first place. The sharing of time. The sharing of the responsibility of anchoring oneself in the world. Life is less terrible when you can just rest for a moment, put everything down and wait without having to worry about being washed away. People take each others hands and they hold on as tight as they can, they hold on to each other and to themselves because they know that the other person will not.”
― Real Life
― Real Life

“You're the rain and you're the desert and you're the eraser that's making the word “loneliness” disappear”
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
― Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
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