Ethel
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“I will probably continue to make poor life decisions and suffer recurrent depressive episodes”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
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“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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