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‘A memory is a place you visit, not where you live. Happiness therefore is not a permanent state of being, but more a moment in time.
“We call them feelings because we feel them. They don't start in our minds, they arise in our bodies.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“Sometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“It’s not just Pandora who had that inescapable flaw. It seems like everyone has been built in a way that sometimes makes them do wrong and stupid things.”
― The Girl with All the Gifts
― The Girl with All the Gifts
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of
accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
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accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put,
was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much
has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful
and useless, how I am nourished and starved?”
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“THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn’t very good for the economy. If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more? How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser? You make someone worry about ageing. How do you get people to vote for a political party? You make them worry about immigration. How do you get them to buy insurance? By making them worry about everything. How do you get them to have plastic surgery? By highlighting their physical flaws. How do you get them to watch a TV show? By making them worry about missing out. How do you get them to buy a new smartphone? By making them feel like they are being left behind. To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act. To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence. To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
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