Kristen
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People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them.
“The world will burn for a hundred years. Fire will consume the things we made from wood and plastic and rubber and cloth, then water and wind and time will chew the stone and steel into dust. How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they needed was Mother Nature and time.”
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“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
― Emma
― Emma
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― The Walls Around Us
― The Walls Around Us
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