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“We don’t have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“A life does not need to be satisfying or triumphant. A life does not need to mean anything or lead anywhere. A life does not need a direction or a goal. Ultimately, a life merely needs to be lived until there is no more living left to do.”
― Alice Isn't Dead
― Alice Isn't Dead
“Sometimes a person reaches a point in their life when it becomes absolutely essential to get the fuck out of the city”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Still. Something is missing. Something is off. So, how fucking spoiled am I, then? How fucking broken? What is wrong with me that I can have everything I could ever want and have ever asked for and still wake up in the morning feeling like every day is a slog?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is. Only the mad can be happy, and not many of those. The few that imagine themselves kings or gods are happy, the rest are no happier than the sane. Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time, but I have been referring to the extreme cases. I have taken from this man that trumpery thing which the race regards as a Mind; I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction; you see the result--and you criticize!”
― The Mysterious Stranger
― The Mysterious Stranger
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