Descartes found it, as far as he was concerned, in the “I” who thinks—the “I” who was aware—as expressed in his famous dictum, cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).
“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end . . . and knowing there’s so much worth saving.”
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“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.”
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“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it’s too late.”
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“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren’t choices at all.”
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