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"Tell me," she said, "have you ever felt confused about what you're doing, like it's not right?"

"I spend more time being confused than not…"

– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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i'm like if someone who was incredibly clingy and obsessive was also incredibly avoidant and elusive

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Han yeo-reum-ui pan-ta-ji-a aka A Midsummer’s Fantasia, 2014, Jang Kun-jae

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Tokyo Story  ‘東京物語’ (1953) Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

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I've entered a different life. I am no longer beautiful and loved. I am strange and lonely.

— M. Rickert, from “Leda,” Map of Dreams (Golden Gryphon Press, 2006)

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I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

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The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

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"If you don't mind, I'd like you to tell me what sort of practical skills you have. What you're especially good at. Other than reading a lot of novels and listening to music."

– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

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Asako I & II

directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2018

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All the books on death and dying are yours, and all the poetry books are mine.

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i would do anything to go back and time and be her again

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Clueless (1995)

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unparalleled image

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You know for the first 18-ish years of your life everyone your age is mostly doing the same things and then all of a sudden every year for the rest of your life somebody your age is getting divorced while somebody else just learned what a leaf is and you have no idea what’s going on or what you’re supposed to be doing

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i don’t think people understand how much of life is grief. not just people dying, but losing the version of yourself you thought you’d become. grieving the city you had to leave. the friends you lost not in argument, but in silence. the summer that will never come back. the feeling that maybe you peaked at 12 when you were reading books under the covers and believing in forever

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you're just mad because you're hungry and tired and your legs hurt and you head hurts and you're too hot and you have depression

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I need to be more disciplined starting tomorrow