Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
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“Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.”
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“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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