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"I have the Japanese version, which I’m translating as I go along… so it’s probably gonna take me ages but it’s extra satisfying 😅" — May 26, 2025 05:38AM
"I have the Japanese version, which I’m translating as I go along… so it’s probably gonna take me ages but it’s extra satisfying 😅" — May 26, 2025 05:38AM
“The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.”
― Masks
― Masks
“You appear infinitely generous, but you are a woman of infinite passion, in hate as well as love.”
― Masks
― Masks
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Eleven Minutes
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know.”
― Eleven Minutes
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