“Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“I’m smart enough now to know I’m stupid. That’s progress.”
― Project Hail Mary
― Project Hail Mary
“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“that division of man against man that was the continual brake on human progress”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“Grief is a bad mirror. It shows you manipulated images of yourself, your will, and the future. It cannot show you how the small work you do will add up to yourself. Inch by inch.”
― Beautyland
― Beautyland
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