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“I think I would feel superficially sadder, but less fundamentally broken as a person, if I could just be sad about one break-up, rather than sad about my lifelong inability to sustain a meaningful relationship.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“I think of the twentieth century as one long question, and in the end we got the answer wrong. Aren't we unfortunate babies to be born when the world ended? After that there was no chance for the planet, and no chance for us.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“It was important to me then to prove that I was a special person. And in my attempt to prove it, I made it true.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“The highest-paying jobs right now are in industries like marketing, advertising, consulting, finance, and insurance, which makes these industries appear to be very important despite being almost entirely inessential to the reproduction of society.”
― Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
― Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
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