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Once Was Willem

by M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)

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“Dear V.,
I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.
- A.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

tags: acting, actor, arthur, dear-v, freezing, station-eleven

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“O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― Thomas Wallach

tags: we-all-looked-up

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“Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy

tags: death, lemony-snicket

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“Anita felt like she finally understood why love was symbolized by the grotesque pumping organ, always threatening to clog, or break, or attack. Because the heart was the body's engine, and love was an act of the body. Your mind could tell you who to hate or respect or envy, but only your body--your nostrils and your mouth and the wide, blank canvas of your skin--could tell you who to love.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

tags: existentialism, love, philosophy, we-all-looked-up

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