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I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.
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I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.
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At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.
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I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.
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Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.
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It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.
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That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.
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Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.
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It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
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In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.
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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
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When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky
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It's never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can't see them.
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For the first time in our lives, I'm somewhere she can't find, and I don't have the map to give her that leads to me.
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I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
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What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?
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And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?
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I always imagined music trapped inside my clarinet, not trapped inside of me. But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?
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If you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?
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I'm layering away: sauce, noodles, I belong to you, cheese, sauce, my heart is yours, noodles, cheese, I hear your soul in your music, cheese, cheese, CHEESE...
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The first thing I notice is the sky, so full of blue and the kind of brilliant white clouds that make you ecstatic to have eyes. Nothing can go wrong under this sky...
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Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
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Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Georges Bataille
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November 25, 1965
(age 58)
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