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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Maybe there is nothing, ever, that can equal the recollection of having been young together.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”
― Jacques Derrida

“She'd never imagined it like this-when she thought of someone (a woman like herself)losing her mind, she'd imagined shrieks and wails, hallucinations; but at that moment it had seemed clear that there was another way, far quieter; a way that was numb and hopeless, flat, so much so that an emotion as strong as sorrow would have been a relief.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours