“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”
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“When someone leaves your life, those exits… are… not made equal. Some are beautiful, and poetic, and satisfying. Others are… abrupt and unfair, but most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy. Where Lup went, she didn’t intend to end up there and she certainly didn't intend to spend as much time away as she did.”
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“One day… believe it or not… you're gonna laugh at a joke.
You're gonna go swimming, and you're gonna smile in the sunlight.
You're gonna pet yourself a good dog, and it‘s gonna make you feel happy.
You ain't always gonna feel like this, Pigeon.
Other people, maybe, but not you. And how do you get there? How do you get to that point? I don't know.
But you are gonna get there.”
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You're gonna go swimming, and you're gonna smile in the sunlight.
You're gonna pet yourself a good dog, and it‘s gonna make you feel happy.
You ain't always gonna feel like this, Pigeon.
Other people, maybe, but not you. And how do you get there? How do you get to that point? I don't know.
But you are gonna get there.”
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“And when it gets that bad you just have to look at the people who rely on you, who think you’re worth something, and you have to believe that they can’t all be wrong. It sounds crazy, but people believe in all kinds of crazy things. Promises and politicians, love and... lives worth living”
― The Penumbra Podcast
― The Penumbra Podcast
“According to Alessandra Strong, surviving is what’s hard, because you never get to take a break from it. You never get to stop. No matter how tired you are, how confused. You’ve just got to keep living... and you’ve got to have faith that, eventually, you’ll be glad you did.”
― The Penumbra Podcast
― The Penumbra Podcast
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