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I say again, out of the sheer joy of being alive: salvation comes through risk—without that, life is not worth living! Happy New Year.

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.”

“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”

“And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”

“Today, tomorrow, the same as yesterday—there’ll be no one in my life but you, my dear.”

me trying to convince myself that the whole spectrum of human emotions is a good and necessary thing to feel even if its not comfortable while im actively experiencing emotions that make me feel like my bones are being dissolved in acid