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"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.". - Ernst Fischer

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"Fascism is the voluntary surrender of power by single individuals thinking that whatever comes won't happen to them"

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"This is what it means to have autonomy -- you may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them." - Atul Gawande

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"I just want people to

know,

there was beauty in my failed existence;

there was light to my ever dark shadows

and

there were attempts in my failure to participate."

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"I think I'll take my whiskey neat, My coffee black and my bed at three" - Hozier in 'too sweet'

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“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”. ― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

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"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is." - Margaret Mitchell

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"my dear, we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede." - Sanober Khan

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"The first kiss is the deepest. The last breath is the hardest." - Nadège Richards

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"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't." - Christopher Paolini

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"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing." - Munia Khan

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"Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die." - Kristen Cashore

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"It might have been as chaos theory posits: a butterfly, whose delicate wingbeat on the far side of the world sets a hurricane into motion. I was that butterfly." - Nick

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"it's emotionally exhausting. being so self aware, yet so mentally unwell. i'm a witness to my own crimes." -Iris Rose

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"Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on." - Cynthia Hand

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"... [I] Have seen everything to see, From Bangkok to Calgary, and the soles of your shoes are all worn down, the time for sleep is now but it's nothing to cry about..." - Death Cab for Cutie

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"I loved you, I mourned you,

I held you, I lost you,

I lived in Eden with you, and I will die in the eternal inferno without you."

- Nick

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