“There will never be enough money and fame and love for us in this world, because every time we get what we thought we wanted, we realize that we want more. Because what we really want is to go back in time to some place when we felt safe, some time before we discovered violence and corruption, when we were happy and pure and innocent.”

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Tagged: humanity

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