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"chapter 11 of 216.. i'm a lot faster than a year ago but not just bc i got a little better, but also bc i dont care about looking up every single word.. it's fine.. i feel what it means, maybe" — Apr 28, 2024 03:48PM
"chapter 11 of 216.. i'm a lot faster than a year ago but not just bc i got a little better, but also bc i dont care about looking up every single word.. it's fine.. i feel what it means, maybe" — Apr 28, 2024 03:48PM
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"wirklich ouch, wenn man ein Kapitel als A1 in fünf Minuten lesen können soll ahahaha
obs so A1 ist weiß ich nicht, vielleicht bin ich bei mir selbst auch zu zuversichtlich, aber ich mag das Level~ keine Romanisierung, trotzdem realistisch leicht zu folgen, trotzdem genug neue Wörter.. nice" — Mar 17, 2024 03:03PM
"wirklich ouch, wenn man ein Kapitel als A1 in fünf Minuten lesen können soll ahahaha
obs so A1 ist weiß ich nicht, vielleicht bin ich bei mir selbst auch zu zuversichtlich, aber ich mag das Level~ keine Romanisierung, trotzdem realistisch leicht zu folgen, trotzdem genug neue Wörter.. nice" — Mar 17, 2024 03:03PM
“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“To me, that’s like being asked, Why do you live? Do you live for any purpose? Let’s be honest, we just live because we’re alive.”
― Almond
― Almond
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― The Midnight Library
It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.
But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.
We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”
― The Midnight Library
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Trying, he thought, to express some unutterable truth about themselves. Which was that translation was impossible. That the realm of pure meaning they captured and manifested would and could not ever be known. That the enterprise of this tower had been impossible from inception. For how could there ever be an Adamic language? The thought now made him laugh. There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language. There was no candidate - not English, not French - that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No, a thousand worlds within one. And translation, a necessary endeavor however futile, to move between them.”
― Babel
― Babel
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