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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.”
― Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The truth is, clocks don’t tell time. Time is measured in meaning.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Books may well be the only true magic.”
― Alice Hoffman

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“That’s what it’s like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Love sticks, and it stays and it braves the bullshit.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“You need simplicity to create complexity”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Love doesn’t leave. It bears all things”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“it's emotional Morphine," he said finally. "Just go with it.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“La gente miente. Ellos te utilizan y mienten, a la vez mientras te alimentan con mierda sobre ser leal y nunca dejarte. Nadie puede hacer esa promesa, porque la vida tiene que ver con las estaciones, y las estaciones cambian. No me gusta el cambio. No se puede confiar en ello, sólo puedes confiar en el hecho de que va a suceder. Pero antes de que suceda, y antes de que aprendas, se siente bien acerca de sus estúpidas promesas de mierda. Eliges creer, porque es necesario. Vas a través de un verano cálido, donde todo es hermoso y no hay nubes, sólo calor, calor, calor. Crees en la permanencia de una persona, porque los seres humanos tienen una tendencia a pegarse a ti cuando la vida es buena. Yo los llamo los veranos de miel. He tenido bastantes veranos de miel en la vida para saber que las personas se van cuando llega el invierno. Cuando la vida te congela y estás temblando y te pones capas de protección lo más que puedas para sobrevivir. Ni siquiera lo notas al principio. El frío te pone demasiado aturdido para ver con claridad. Entonces, de repente, miras y la nieve está empezando a derretirse, y te das cuenta que pasaste el invierno sola. Eso me molesta mucho. Tanto como para dejar a la gente antes de que me dejen a mí. Eso es lo que hice con Nick. Eso es lo que traté de hacer con Isaac. Excepto que no se iría. Él se quedó todo el invierno.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Mud Vein

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life on other planets) or downright unreasonable (fairies exist).

There's a scale of reasonableness, if you like, with very reasonable beliefs near the top and deeply unreasonable ones towards the bottom. Notice a belief can be very high up the scale, yet still be open to some doubt. And even when a belief is low down, we can still acknowledge the remote possibility it might be true.

How reasonable is the belief that God exists? Atheists typically think it very unreasonable. Very low on the scale. But most religious people say it is at least not unreasonable (have you ever met a Christian who said 'Hey, belief in God is no more reasonable than belief in fairies, but I believe it anyway!'?) They think their belief is at least halfway up the scale of reasonableness.

Now, that their belief is downright unreasonable might, in fact, be established empirically. If it turned out that not only is there no good evidence of an all-powerful, all-good God, there's also overwhelming evidence against (from millions of years of unimaginable and pointless animal suffering, including several mass extinctions - to thousands of children being crushed to death or buried alive in Pakistan earthquake, etc. etc. etc.) then it could be empirically confirmed that there's no God.

Would this constitute a 'proof' that there's no God? Depends what you mean by 'proof'. Personally I think these sorts of consideration do establish beyond any reasonable doubt that there is no all-powerful all-good God. So we can, in this sense, prove there's no God.

Yet all the people quoted in my last blog say you cannot 'scientifically' prove or disprove God's existence. If they mean prove beyond any doubt they are right. But then hardly anything is provable in that sense, not even the non-existence of fairies.”
― Stephen Law

“In a sense I’m so far gone, I don‘t know what to say,” I begin. “I love you so much, and there are so many things that I didn’t get to tell you. I was so scared of the way that you loved me, Caleb.” I swipe at a tear that is leaking from my eye and continue.
“You changed everything. I was so frightened of losing you that I did everything in my power to drive you away. I thought that if I didn’t, eventually you would see that
you were wasting your time with me and leave anyway. I miss you. No, not just miss
you, my heart aches every day because you’re not there. I am so sorry for what I did. All of it. Please, please don’t forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist