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“You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! […] it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

“It’s pretty here. I wouldn’t have imagined I’d say that about a place like this, but—“
“Yes, it is. It is. Dying things often are.”
“That’s a little macabre.”
“Do you think so? Hmm. I disagree. I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”

“I am made of metal and numbers; you are made of water and genes. But we are each something more than that. And we can’t define what that something more is simply by our raw components.”

cosy reread time yippee!