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“Youth is the only sexy tragedy.”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall
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“I don’ t want to learn anything from the failure of this love.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals & Notebooks, 1964–1980
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