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Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells


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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.



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It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.



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It's not me but the world that's deranged.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.



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