“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“A society which demands we be normal even as it drives us insane.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“We humans might have evolved too far. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe’s worth of darkness.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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