

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“despite knowing
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives
- sunflowers”
― The Sun and Her Flowers
they won’t be here for long
they still choose to live
their brightest lives
- sunflowers”
― The Sun and Her Flowers

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms

“Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a ‘stop and search’ and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ("The world was somewhere else")”
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