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So far, completely disgusted from reading this😷

"mens sana in corpore sano"
'in a sound body rest a sound mind'

The Paper Menagerie
You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It’s for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.

You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It’s for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.

The tragedy of life is not death , but what we let die inside of us while we live

Willem Listening to Jude Tell a Story, Greene Street

How the eff this is Happy years of Jude & Willem

And tell me this: I must be absolutely sure. This place I've reached, is it truly Ithaca?" -- as all around him, the apartment filled with light.
-Willem

Jude🥺 and his axiom of equality

You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is th

But it was true that for the first time, he was able to comprehend that the people he had grown to trust might someday betray him anyway, and that as disappointing as it might be, it was inevitable as well, and that life would keep propelling him steadily forward, because for everyone who might fail him in some way, there was at least one person who never would.

When I looked at him, I understood, for the first time since Jacob died, what people meant when they said someone was heartbreaking, that something could break your heart. I had always thought it mawkish, but in that moment I realized that it might have been mawkish, but it was also true.

And that, I suppose, was when I knew.

“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general: things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.

“Et uino et sale et omnibus cachinnis,” he finished for her. “And wine and salt and all the laughter.”
She saw that there was a saltshaker on his desk. Salt made the blandest food palatable. Salt was like wit and laughter in conversation. Salt made the plain extraordinary. Salt made the simple beautiful. Salt was his soul.
And salt made it harder to freeze.
She laughed.
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WOW I mean that's poetic

The mark of immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

To the nameless minions who give their lives in my books to make the heroes look better.
We will always forget you.
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LolxD