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“I live for this. And if this is all there is, well, this is all there is.”
― Enigma Variations
― Enigma Variations
“There were things I couldn’t say; I could only write them. Because when I spoke, I thought; and when I wrote, I felt.”
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
― Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
“To see the act of learning as something not for its own sake but because of what it will get you reduces the wonder of humanity. We are thinking, feeling, art-making, knowledge-hungry, marvellous animals, who understand ourselves and our world through the act of learning. It is an end in itself. It has far more to offer than the things it lets us write on application forms. It is a way to love living right now.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Employment is becoming a dehumanizing process, as if humans existed to serve work, rather than work to serve humans.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
“It’s not easy,’ she says softly, ‘but if it’s worth doing, it never is.”
― The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman
― The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman
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