Tyler Durden said it best in the film Fight Club: “The things you own end up owning you.”
“Things don’t just sit there. They send us silent messages.”
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
― Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
“It’s pretty exhausting avoiding yourself all the time.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Being longtime veterans, the three were easily able to fill their chart with appropriate, vacuous nonsense that would appease Ms. Harper, even as they joked about darker, unwritten content. It was how they managed to survive such moments.”
― The Faculty Lounge
― The Faculty Lounge
“It did not want to extend to them their full humanity—that was clear. But as long as she didn’t open her mouth, ask for too much, or rock the boat, she could stay. As long as she could agree to exist only in a certain way. Like, half a person.”
― The Faculty Lounge
― The Faculty Lounge
“Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won’t be the mirror they break.”
― Dark Age
― Dark Age
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