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“And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two.”
― The Sea, the Sea
― The Sea, the Sea
“To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you.”
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“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”
― P.S. I Still Love You
― P.S. I Still Love You
“Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“The problem isn’t that we don’t know how not to get punched in the face. The problem is that, at some point, likely a long time ago, we got punched in face, and instead of punching back, we decided we deserved it.”
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
― Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
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