and this is true
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“So the thing to remember, the thing that’s most important of all that I might say in this here telling of things is that Noise ain’t truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there’s a difference twixt those two things so big it could ruddy well kill you if you don’t watch out.” — The Knife of Never Letting Go (Patrick Ness) -
“Unfortunately, her years had taught her that no measure of planning or determination could make life turn out as you wanted. That didn’t stop her from being annoyed when it didn’t. [..] The older she grew, the less inclined she was to wait, for she knew she didn’t have many years left.
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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” — Lao Tzu (via lazyyogi)(via northerndelight)
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(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.” — St. Augustine (354–430)(via yallwelcome)
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“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski (via moriarty)(via graceebooks)
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“Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.” — Pedro Almodóvar (via brightwalldarkroom)(via plumintheicebox)
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“I was always desired. But now I am valued. And that is a different thing, I find.”
—Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
