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How to prioritize tasks effectively
How to manage your time efficiently
How to reduce stress and anxiety
I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?
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You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.
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When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?
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All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
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The thing is, I don't want my sadness to be othered from me just as I don't want my happiness to be othered. They're both mine. I made them, dammit.
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Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.
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Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.
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All freedom is relative—you know too well—and sometimes it’s no freedom at all, but simply the cage widening far away from you, the bars abstracted with distance but still there, as when they “free” wild animals into nature preserves only to contain them yet again by larger borders. But I took it...
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They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.
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