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“There's a word in Portuguese that my dad wrote about in one of his books: saudade.
It's the sadness you feel for something that isn't gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive.”
― Thanks for the Trouble
It's the sadness you feel for something that isn't gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive.”
― Thanks for the Trouble
“the fundamental rule of life: Things were never so bad that they couldn’t get worse.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
“Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
“That was how you could be lucky without being lucky. That was how you could be a winner and still lose.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little less alone in the world.”
― We All Looked Up
― We All Looked Up
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