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“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
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― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― The Madman
― The Madman
“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”
― Dry
― Dry
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
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― The Wild Palms
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