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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
“City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.”
― The Lost Metal
― The Lost Metal
“Researchers find our reward systems are activated most when we achieve relative rather than absolute rewards; we’re designed to feel best not when we get more, but when we get more than those around us.”
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
“Cats are assholes. I get it. But do you know why people like cats, despite their asshole-ness? It’s because they don’t fucking talk. If they did, and they were all like you, they’d all be extinct because we’d have killed you all by now.”
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
― Dungeon Crawler Carl
“You are a story that you tell yourself, and even if it is not always accurate, it is who you are, and that is very important to you.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“It might be that saving the world is idiotically simple. Maybe we just need to connect and care for one another.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
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