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The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate.
I mean, is there really someone out there who looks at relationships and thinks, ‘You know what, I’ve got this’? Personally, I rather think we’re all collectively idiots about it.”
“But sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a person who is in the process of changing.”
No use troubling our minds now about things we cannot understand.”
I don’t need company to be confident.”
Look
close at a given person, and you’d see their uniqueness—see that they didn’t quite match whatever broad category you’d first put them in.
Cities balanced on the edge of sustainability, always one step from starvation. When you pressed so many people together, their cultures, ideas, and stenches rubbed off on one another. The result wasn’t civilization. It was contained chaos, pressurized, bottled up so it couldn’t escape. There
Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.
Why was it that trying to stand tall should make you so much more likely to fall?
We never know as much as we think.
