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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Why is it that I find it difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simple the lovely apple I was given in the morning?”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If something is worth dying for, then you've got a reason to live.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity. A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes a historic significance. The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace