civilisation The result of humans grouping together and suppressing their instincts.
“In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.”
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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“como si ser una mujer trans molestase por defecto y tuviera que ir rebajando esa molestia con acciones como estar callada, ser más amable que los demás y no responder a los gestos desagradables.”
― La mala costumbre
― La mala costumbre
“The impossible did not bother him unduly. If it could not possibly be done, then obviously it had been done impossibly. The question was how?”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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