The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Jack London
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  1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

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  4. A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

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