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“Tension can build up and live and fester, creep into in the smallest corners of daily life. This a move back toward regularity, to predictability. We all want certainty.”

"They stay together because it's expected, because it's what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. And the more I think about, the more I think there's nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It's immoral."

“Why do people stay together?"

"Because they love each other. They're committed to each other. They depend on each other. There's comfort there, security.”

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

“Beauty isn't fleeting. Beauty is eternal.
But...'m not. I'm fleeting.“

"What if it never comes? The storm. The rain. We act like it has to come, like it's inevitable because it has always come before, but what if a storm doesn't come this time and things just keep going on and on like this forever? What then?”

“Whats impossible becomes not only achievaple but then is also quickly forgotten when the next impossibility becomes the new pursuit.”

“Doesn’t life have to be determined by each individual, and be involved to be legitimate? Doesn’t there have to be an element of challenge and progression?”

“The privilege of being human is that our brains are big enough to decide the fate of other creatures.”

“The only constant quality of humanness is that we adapt. Always."

“I'm not here only to help you feel secure in your life.”

“The thought of ever going somewhere new is scary. But isn't it good to scare yourself from time to time? It's so easy to get stuck in your own narrow rut. We convince ourselves they're paths to something else, contentment, but really they're just ruts going on forever."

“Being alone, it's a tricky thing. I's good for us, in doses, but not for a prolonged period. And not when you're not used to it."

“Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, but it doesn't mean it actually happened that way.”

“Despair is never satisfied on its own. Despair does not want to be alone. Despair warts company.“

“I endured the passage of lonely days indifferently. Hen changed that. She gave me a purpose. A reason to exist.”

“…whenever I think about the past, I feel a heightened sense of oblivion.“

“You shape your existence through decisions, perceptions, and behavior.“

“But why is the unknown a burden? It doesn't have to be. It can just as easily be the opposite — a kind of awakening to feel something.”

“You can hold beliefs and not always believe in them.”

“Maybe the orbit we inhabit is preordained. I'm okay with it even if I don't really believe in that kind of thing. You can hold beliefs and not always believe in them.”

“Are some things meant to be, meant to happen?”

“Life finds a way of balancing out. This is what we desire as humans — security, certainty, affirmation.”

“That's what time does. It ushers a return to equilibrium. Unease becomes ease. A shock, no matter how potent, always wears off with time.”

“…if I can see it, all of it — those stars, the moon — see them from here with my own eyes, how far away can they really be?”

“Everything changes. Change Is one of the only certainties in life. Human beings progress. We have to. We evolve. We move. We expand. What seems farfetched and extreme becomes normal and then outdated pretty quickly. We move on to the next thing; the next development, the next frontier."

“I had already moved too fast, too far, and wished to travel no further. I've been thinking a great deal about time and motion lately, about being a still point in the ceaseless rush.”

“If definitive proof emerges that we're living in a simulation, the correct response to that news will be: So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”

“I was alone in the room, but alone wasn't a strong enough word for it. I knew no one in this century, and the fact of having been through this before did nothing to assuage my loneliness.”