“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
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“[...] almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“I wish I had no heart, it aches so…”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”
― The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”
― The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
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