Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
― Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair…
― Antonin Artaud
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“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” Confucius
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We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
― Stephen Fry
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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
― Richard Dawkins
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
― Anais Nin
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“If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?”
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The more I learn about this country, the more I think I should live somewhere else
― Hunter S. Thompson
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