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Akhil Mehta
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“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Let the Great World Spin
― Let the Great World Spin
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“You’re born, you take shit
get out in the world, you take more shit
climb a little higher, take less shit.
till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like.
Welcome to the layer cake, son.”
― Layer Cake
get out in the world, you take more shit
climb a little higher, take less shit.
till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like.
Welcome to the layer cake, son.”
― Layer Cake
“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”
― On Such a Full Sea
― On Such a Full Sea
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