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“till death do us part, may we live forever."

alcyone & ceyx loved each other more than the shores loved oceans. they were admired for their unending admiration and loyalty towards one another but their story faced a wicked end when ceyx embarked on a sea journey and lost his life to the brutal storms. consumed by the grief, alcyone took her own life. the gods, touched by their love, transformed them both into kingfishers, forever bound. not even death could separate them.

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Biblis by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1884)

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"in the quiet theatre of sacrifice, a whispered truth echoes softly: where sacrifices bloom, suffering casts its gentle shadow."

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"Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight for the greatest tragedy of them all  is never to feel the burning light."

- Oscar Wilde

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sometimes, its just not meant to be. when orpheus loved eurydice so much that when she was bitten by a snake & died, orpheus used his music skills to go to the underworld & convinced hades, the lord of the underworld to return eurydice to her but one condition: that throughout the journey from underworld to earth, eurydice will walk behind orpheus & he can't look back until they reach earth but the insecurity got the better of orpheus & he turned back in fear, losing eurydice to the underworld for all time.

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"stronger than lover's love is lover's hate incurable, in each, the wounds they make."

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"love" she said. and that's all.

in greek mythology, Pyramus & Thisbe loved each other so deeply but were forbid to be together because of their families so they dared to run away together the next morning & decided to meet under a mulberry tree. as tomorrow arrived, Thisbe reached early but saw a lioness with blood on her mouth and ran away scared, leaving her robe behind. Pyramus came & saw Thisbe's robe covered in blood and thought that she had been killed by the lioness. out of the grief of losing his loved one, Pyramus purposefully fell on his own sword & took his life because being in this world without her was be meaningless. Thisbe returned under the tree again and saw a lifeless Pyramus. heartbroken, she decided to take her life & begged for them to be buried together so that they could be together in the afterlife. the world didn't let them be together so they decided to leave it.

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"one must imagine Sisyphus happy."

- Albert Camus.