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Sometimes the friends we meet along the way were inside us all along…
“There are some works so luminous...so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.”
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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
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“And now maybe humankind is in the late smash-it-all-up teenage stage of self-harm and nihilism, because we didn’t ask to be alive, we didn’t ask to inherit an earth to look after, and we didn’t ask to be so completely unjustly darkly alone.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
“I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion”
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“Our lives here are inexpressibly trivial and momentous at once, it seems he’s about to wake up and say. Both repetitive and unprecedented. We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.”
― Orbital
― Orbital
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