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You Don’t Have to Act Crazy Anymore You don’t have to act crazy anymore— We all know you were good at that. Now retire, my dear, From all that hard work you do Of bringing pain to your sweet eyes and heart. Look in a clear mountain
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“The Cat
She was licking
The opened tin
For hours and hours
Without realising
That she was drinking
Her own blood.
-spyros kyriazopoulos”
― Birds Without Wings
She was licking
The opened tin
For hours and hours
Without realising
That she was drinking
Her own blood.
-spyros kyriazopoulos”
― Birds Without Wings
“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.”
― The Enchantress of Florence
― The Enchantress of Florence
“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge-a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral."
--Arthur Schopenhauer”
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--Arthur Schopenhauer”
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“Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would be something less than that, an albino cockroach, a louse. The dungeon did not udnerstand the idea of as tory. The dungeon was static, eternal, black and a story needed motion adn tiem and light. He felt his story slipping away from him, beocming inconsequential, ceasing to be. He has no story. There was no story. He was not a man. There was no man here. There was only the dungeon, and the slithering dark.”
― The Enchantress of Florence
― The Enchantress of Florence
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