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“It looks like it weighs a thousand tons in her arms now, even though Ted knows that it hardly weighs anything at all, so he probably has a good idea of the feelings that are making her knees buckle. Nothing weighs more than someone else’s belief in you.”

Oh my gosh.

I don’t think I’ve ever read something that made me ache and gives me chills every few paragraphs like this

“Don’t let them catch her, Ted! She’s one of us!”

☹️

“That there is a speed at which a heart can beat that you can’t remember when you’ve stopped being young, art that is a joy so overwhelming that you almost can’t bear it. How sad it must be, the artist thinks, what an immense loss for anyone who never gets to experience this.”

“And when we aren’t thinking? Oh, those are all our very best moments, when we’re wasting our lives.”

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“To look for a way to show other people: this was me, these were my humans, these were our farts. These were our bodies, and they were small, far too small, because they couldn’t contain all our love.”

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Fredrik Backman…. Wow

“He paints skulls.”

💔

“The very fact that you can see the disturbance (in our minds) means that we are not it.”

Subject object

I’ve only read the first chapter & this might be some of the most beautiful writing I’ve ever read

I am so lucky I have read no bad books in so long 😭😭😭😭

Ilya 💔💔💔💔💔💔

I ADORE them so much

In making personal choices, as affirm our autonomy. “A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self determining.

What he becomes — within the limits of endowment and environment — he has made out of himself.”

“The choices humans make should be active rather than passive.”

“It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to these questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.”

3 meanings
- creating a work or doing a deed
- love
- even the helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by doing so, change himself

Personal tragedy turned triumph

Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown

“doesn’t this final meaning, too, depend on whether or not the potential meaning of each single situation has been actualities to the best of the respective individuals knowledge and belief?”

Unemployment neurosis wow

“The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self management, perhaps to cure.”

“That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”