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“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.” quote by Emily St. John Mandel — Download Open image

“No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism.”

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What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you’ve lost.

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“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night”

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Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

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