“No one tells you it's all about to change, to be taken away. There's no proximity alert, no indication that you're standing on the precipice. And maybe that's what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you're least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“We all live day to day completely oblivious to the fact that we’re a part of a much larger and stranger reality than we can possibly imagine.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.”
― Existentialism is a Humanism
― Existentialism is a Humanism
“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
― The Ethics of Ambiguity
“A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
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