“Then he quoted from a French Jesuit named Teilhard de Chardin: “He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.”
― We Are Not Ourselves
― We Are Not Ourselves
“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
“I've decided the worst part of being lonely isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.”
― Fragile Beasts
― Fragile Beasts
“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.”
― All the Birds in the Sky
― All the Birds in the Sky
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