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You're a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
"In the dead white hours, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
"The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again."
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Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do - they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval."
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Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy - one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
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Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head."
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Primo Levi
"Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces trying to close the gaps to the past."
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Into The Wild
Can’t sleep. Going to watch Into The Wild. What an epic.