Exhale
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you must always choose yourself. Why? Because YOU can’t leave YOU. You are the only permanent thing in your life. People can dip without warning. They can wake up and decide that they’re done with you. You are disposable to the world. To
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you must always choose yourself. Why? Because YOU can’t leave YOU. You are the only permanent thing in your life. People can dip without warning. They can wake up and decide that they’re done with you. You are disposable to the world. To these niggas, to friends that really ain’t down for you. A job will replace you faster than you can pack up your desk. You can’t give up on yourself though. You can’t. It shouldn't be possible.”
“Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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