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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir,”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people’s lives. My whole life, I had been “Baba’s son.” Now he was gone. Baba couldn’t show me the way anymore; I’d have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“[W]hat we also see in sex is a kind of submissiveness. But not a kind of submissiveness which is simply 'do what you like, I'm just here for you', but it...is, or can be, very manipulative. It is a way of getting the other person to exercise all his or her efforts towards pleasing you, and in that way controlling what they're thinking, and in particular what they're thinking of you.”
― Robert C. Solomon, No Excuses: Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life