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"unfortunately i did NOT know i was signing up for a miniature Infinite Jest while I'm in somewhat of a time crunch" — Nov 14, 2024 07:59PM
"unfortunately i did NOT know i was signing up for a miniature Infinite Jest while I'm in somewhat of a time crunch" — Nov 14, 2024 07:59PM
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― 1984
― 1984
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
― Lost Highway
― Lost Highway
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence. War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”
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