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On monachopsis, hiraeth and dreadful sensibility

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The Opera Ghost Really Existed. He Was Not, As Was Long Believed, A Creature Of The Imagination Of The

The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box- keepers, the cloak-room attendants, or the concierge. No, he existed in flesh and blood, though he assumed all the outward characteristics of a real phantom, that is to say, of a shade.

Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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ما هو الحب في رأيك؟

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It leaves you and you don't know how

You don't see your friends just shadows dancing in your mind

You do what you love what you can until you don't

The desperate call for help takes away all the joy

Nothing's real

You're not here

You're not sleeping

Not waking

Just that tantalising

Feeling of weakness

Where breaking is freedom

They want you to let go

To give up your struggle

Why hold on

When it clearly makes no sense

They try to prove you that there's nothing left

Not even yourself.

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To guide someone
through the halls of hell
is not the same as love.

Gregory Orr, from ‘Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence’

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