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"some very good takes (eugenics bad). also some very insane takes (casual early 20th century racism)" — Nov 13, 2025 02:34PM
"some very good takes (eugenics bad). also some very insane takes (casual early 20th century racism)" — Nov 13, 2025 02:34PM
I think the word “pussy” is pretty intellectually sophisticated. It communicates pretty precisely the meaning I’m looking for.
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
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“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
― The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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