Pål

“He says, “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.” Daniela says, “Life doesn’t work that way. You live with your choices and learn. You don’t cheat the system.”
― Blake Crouch, Dark Matter

“Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,” had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius — man in the abstract — was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

“What’s your perfect world?” he asked the horse. “Typical horse stuff. Plenty of grass. Endless fields to run free. The complete and utter collapse of what you consider civilization which is actually a codified system for abuse, cruelty, and domination.” Most of that sounded pretty good.”
― Michael R. Fletcher, A War to End All

“Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another soul to carry our own.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before