Nousheen

“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

“At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

“At the time, though, I felt distant from Zuckerberg and all the kids at Harvard. I still feel distant from them now, ever more so, as I increasingly opt out (by choice, by default) of the things they have embraced. We have different ideas about things. Specifically we have different ideas about what a person is, or should be. I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

“Maybe a certain kind of ignorance was the condition. Into the pure nothingness of my non-knowledge something sublime (an event?) beyond (beneath?) consciousness was able to occur.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays