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3 quotes by Ocean Vuong on suffering
They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.
Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.
I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
They say nothing lasts forever but they’re just scared it will last longer than they can love it.
Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.
Added in 2026
I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Added in 2026
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