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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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A life with someone you can say goodbye to is a good life, especially when it hurts so much to say it to them

-Dazai, BSD: Beast

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Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

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“Dazai showing genuine fear and distress” is my favourite Dazai flavour

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Higher Places

We exit a steamy subway station and peer up to the crystalline skyscrapers reaching incomprehensible heights

We’ve done it, one thinks, we’ve grazed the heavens with gleaming, mirrored gems

Human achievement has peaked with their towering shimmer

You see all the other skyscrapers around and gasp at just how many times we’ve achieved this feat

Yet

Rain falls on our faces more frequently

and from higher places

-Franco

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Alone

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

Of a most stormy life—was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still—

From the torrent, or the fountain—

From the red cliff of the mountain—

From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold—

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by—

From the thunder, and the storm—

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view—

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