“I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”
― Into Thin Air
― Into Thin Air
“You can’t find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“Sentimentality is another human flaw. A distortion. Another twisted by-product of love, serving no rational purpose. And yet, there was a force behind it as authentic as any other.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“The problem lying behind the lack of human fulfillment was a shortage not just of time but of imagination. They found a day that worked for them and then stuck to it and repeated it, at least between Monday and Friday. Even if it didn’t work for them—as was usually the case—they stuck to it anyway. Then they’d alter things a bit and do something a little bit more fun on Saturday and Sunday.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
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