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“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns with renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence