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At night everything is more intense.

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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”

Sally Rooney, Normal People

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"Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so? Could it be because it reminds us that we are alive, of our mortality, of our individual souls – which, after all, we are too afraid to surrender but yet make us feel more miserable than any other thing? It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?"

Donna Tartt (the secret history, 1992)

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Kiama, NSW. August 2015

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Detail and edit: The Cave of the Storm Nymphs, 1903, by Edward Poynter.

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ashlan with a ladybug

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before sunrise (1995) dir. by richard linklater

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Éric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse (1967)

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