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“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

tags: loss, love

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“In times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everyone will be in a situation where he has to play detective.”
― Walter Benjamin

tags: conspiracy, detective, terror

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“The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Conversations with Samuel R. Delany

tags: class, love, suffering

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