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There were many sounds on the train: people’s chatter, the wheels rolling over the tracks, the rumbling of the engine. Amid all this noise, only Chi-chan’s voice was like the string of an instrument, plucked to play a translucent melody.
“Nobody has to be fully satisfied by just one thing, and nor do they have to aim to be like everyone else. It's plenty if people can enjoy things a good amount, and be satisfied with their life overall.”
― Butter
― Butter
“If you were accepted by just one person, then you didn’t need to be someone whose beauty was acknowledged by everyone.”
― Butter
― Butter
“Why do we experience our perceptual constructions as being objectively real? On the controlled hallucination view, the purpose of perception is to guide action and behaviour – to promote the organism’s prospects of survival. We perceive the world not as it is, but as it is useful for us.”
― Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
― Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
“Not looking after yourself is a form of violence.”
― Butter
― Butter
“Pleasantly full as she was, Rika felt like crying. She might dine with someone, but at the end of the meal they would go their separate ways. She couldn’t stay with that person forever. Even with her stomach full of warmth and the taste of delicious food lingering on her tongue, she remained alone. It didn’t matter who she had for company. She was beginning to understand that the more delicious the time she spent with others, the more alone she felt.”
― Butter
― Butter
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