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It’s what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the time, the less satisfied you become, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that you lack it in
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“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
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“Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.”
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Daniel’s 2025 Year in Books
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