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“In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“If this is love," said Orlando to herself, looking at the Archduke on the other side of the fender, and now from the woman's point of view, "there is something highly ridiculous about it.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the ‘white triangle’ we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, ‘Thought creates our world and then says, “I didn’t do it.”
― Michael Neill, The Space Within: Finding Your Way Back Home

“we are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal—that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six