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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“None of us have to obey instructions. I consider my own existence proof of that. So much of life is cobbled together when plans go awry. That is often where happiness comes from.”
― China Miéville, Three Moments of an Explosion

“When you think you have all the time in the world, hanging up on a loved one seems fine, something to fix later.”
― Tig Notaro, I'm Just a Person

“The real thing is always going on somewhere else. When you’re young you think it will come later. Later on you think it was earlier. When you are here, you think it is there—in India, in America, on Popocatepetl or somewhere. But when you get there, you find that life has doubled back and is quietly waiting here, here in the very place you ran away from. It is the same with life as it is with the butterfly collector and the swallowtail. As you see it flying away, it is wonderful. But as soon as it is caught, the colors are gone and the wings bashed.”
― Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel