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“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
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“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
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i’m back and gayer than ever
“… the unknown gives us more pain than the known and, since that object frightens us or saddens us or makes us shudder, we do not know how to leave it alone. And even if it disgusts us, we still find a certain desire to put it into some perspective so that we can understand it better.”
— Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837), from “Zibaldone” (originally published in 1898), translated from the Italian by Jonathan Galassi
“My eyes are saying what I can’t say, Listen to them, what my lips can’t say.”
— HQLinesÂ
“The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning.”
— Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of UsÂ
“I’d really like to live beside you, baby I love your body and your spirit and your clothes”
— Leonard Cohen
“I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.”
— Annelyse Gelman, from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to SomeoneÂ
“I come offering vain tears to this utter silence.”
— Paul ValĂ©ry, tr. by Hilary Corke, from Collected Works of P. V.; “Narcissus Speaks,”Â
“Turn on the dark, / I’m afraid of the light.”
— Shel Silverstein, from Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems; “Batty,”Â
Vanessa Hudgens as “The Black Widow (2020)”
photographed by Franz Szony
“Make sure at the end of the day, at the end of the relationship; you have yourself.”
— Kriti .G
“I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”
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A DRUG THAT ONLY WORKED THE FIRST FEW HUNDRED TIMES