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“He decided in favour of life out of sheer spite and sheer malice”

Same my dude

“… It seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”

“The buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

What in the Frankenstein’s monster is this 😥😭 what the hell

"She had held a pear in her hand and had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw."

" And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated..."

“Oh let’s not think about it let’s have this just for now we will only live now and what comes will come and we won’t think about it…”

“You will ask, perhaps, what does he dream about? Why ask that? About everything…”

Ugh the dreamer’s monologue is making me feel sick out of sadness 💔

Holy shit!!!!

What an end to the first section of the book?!

God damn… oh my god

“ She belonged to the house in the sense that she had nothing else, no other life than the house, but the house, by itself, did not belong to her. “

“Is it because of some billowing whiteness within us, unsullied, inviolate, that our encounters with objects so pristine never fail to leave us moved?”

“Why did the possibility of such mishaps, which after all in real life are not without fixes, fill me with the kind of dread appropriate to a real calamity?”

“I was stepping closer to a life where my past had no place.”

“The simultaneous not wanting to be here and always wanting to be here, the heart scraped hollow with craving, which is not emptiness in the least, more the knowledge of how fillable he is”

“It’s not a fond wish but a fretful demand. Can we not stop tyrannising and destroying and ransacking and squandering this one thing one which our lives depend?”

“The more we know, the more we have to fear that the human race is headed toward extinction.”