Nicole
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“I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality. You think you’re tasting this wine, hearing the words I’m saying, in the present, but there’s no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory—so by the time you know you’re experiencing something, it’s already in the past. Already a memory.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“There are so few things in our existence we can count on to give us the sense of permanence, of the ground beneath our feet. People fail us. Our bodies fail us. We fail ourselves. He's experienced all of that. But what do you cling to, moment to moment, if memories can simply change. What, then, is real? And if the answer is nothing, where does that leave us?”
― Recursion
― Recursion
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