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“Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people who and event we call coincidences. 'Co-incidence' means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time, they meet.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Little star that I see, Drawn by the moon.'
The old words, just as they were first written... They were a link joining me to past centuries, when the stars shone exactly as they do today. And this rebirth and this permanence gave me a feeling of eternity.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“All around me the world lies like an immense hypothesis that I can no longer verify.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die I cannot stop them, they leave me and I love them more.

I'm finding out as I am aging that I’m in love with the world. It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it in the last couple of years. To fall in love with the world isn’t to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt and my throat tightens, and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from feeling. I want to deflect with irony or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends but I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.

Live your life. Live your life. Live your life.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet