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Film – Nježno, nježno, nježnije, 1994.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928–July 2, 2016) has left us — and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending injustice.
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Somebody Else – The 1975

You don’t tell people you’re not okay,” she said, “Because it’s hard watching them not know what to do.
Then you end up comforting them, even though the one who needed comforting was you.

Sue Zhao

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It’s pouring, the trees are getting greener before my eyes, I love you. I’m almost afraid of the intensity of this happiness.

Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra tr. by Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd
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I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Georges Bataille – My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man. (via empiregrotesk)