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"I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn its passing."

― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream

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“Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized.”

— James "The Ultimate Warrior" Hellwig, in a speech he gave a few hours after his death (April 7, 2014)

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"He couldn’t make out what the problem was: whether he was terrible at social interaction, or they were terrible at understanding him. Yet something else was behind all this. Looking back, it all tied to his heart and perspective–the heart represented the future, while perspective defined where he was now, and his capacity to change everything."

— Shaun Jacob M. Alde

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Maybe failing it signals you are entering a much challenging arena, and failing is how they welcome their next victor. Maybe its not the usual life stage in the game you are used to, instead you are entering on a much harder battle thus you will ineviteably fail at some point but its safe to say, “I'm entering to new heights now”

— Pol

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"And happiness would flood her, so intense and bright, that it compensated for what she'd never imagined was a humiliation,"

— Clarice Lispector, The Triumph ("O triunfo") (1940)

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"We’ve all had too much sorrow, now is the time for joy!"

— Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Joy (song) (2024)

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"A very great joy, a joy so great it's unfathomable...in its turn summons up every kind of darkness, every possible torment and terror."

— Ingmar Bergman, Private Confessions (1996, trans. Joan Tate)

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Abandoned arms and legs and intimate things

Finding their way into these twisted sheets

I need a maid or another mother

More than the strain of an absent lover

— American Football, Mine To Miss (song) (2019)

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And uselessly always the need to feel again

The real belief of something more than mockery

If only I could fill my heart with love

— The Cure, Closedown (1989, song)

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So you are tired as the sun

Are you with or without a friend?

Bring me back everything caught in your shield

Let everything else descend

— Sufjan Stevens, So You Are Tired (song) (2023)

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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

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During The Dance

It takes two to tango,

but you left halfway through

the routine we've practiced

for a year or two

You left in a heartbeat

Should I be worried?

Should I follow

or wait until tomorrow

You left without conjuring any word

I guess that's given, the music was loud

You probably said goodbye,

And I probably misheard it as a lie

But now I'm all alone,

standing on the lacquered floor

mirrors all over the wall

You were here just a moment ago,

now what's left was your dancing shoes

— Mikael de Quijano

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"There is an hour just at evening when the plains seem on the verge of saying something; they never do, or perhaps they do—eternally—though we don't understand it, or perhaps we do understand but what they say is as untranslatable as music..."

- Jorge Luis Borges, The End (short story) (1953, trans. Andrew Hurley)

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"And, if you don’t hear from me, it won’t be because I haven’t thought about you. I will think about you. I just have to figure out what’s best."

— Sally Rooney, Opening Theory (2024)

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"Where did it come from, then, this word “passionate”? She knows where. From that so firmly suppressed feeling, present all along, that when he looks at her, when he speaks to her, he is addressing not only the superficial but also the deep, concealed parts of her personality—without meaning to, without knowing how not to."

— Sally Rooney, Opening Theory (2024)

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"When we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don’t start with just a rally, don’t start from looting — it starts from within."

- Kendrick Lamar, Billboard Interview (2015)

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"We might not be the ones [to change the world], but let’s not be selfish, and because we not gonna change the world, let’s not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it, but if I keep talking about how dirty it is, somebody gonna clean it up."

- Tupac Shakur, from an MTV News Interview (1994)