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“If you get a chance to sit for a spell with someone you love don’t get up to quickly, stay a while, linger, indulge, savor. Order the cake.”
― If You Would Have Told Me
― If You Would Have Told Me
“A lot of times when I think I’m being self-sufficient, I’m really just learning to live without the things that I need.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
“I am thoughtful—full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless—acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand nor examine.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
― The Anthropocene Reviewed
“The source of all misery lies concealed within me, as the source of all happiness did formerly.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Because I kept fucking up, because it seemed so hard to not fuck up, I lived a life where I had less than what I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing.”
― Nothing to See Here
― Nothing to See Here
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