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“you can live a whole life time never being awake.”

 - The Peaceful Warrior, 2006

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“one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul” 

 - Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 1899

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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”

- Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 1899

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Newest tattoo from two weeks ago-- inspired by a varied collection of literature, film, thought & words.

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{ a w a k e n ,} -- dont let yourself become numb to the world

- xxS