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‘If one advances confidently,’ Thoreau had written in Walden, ‘in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’
human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people, as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.
On both sides of her family there had been an unspoken belief that life was meant to fuck you over.
About how human brains take complex information about the world and simplify it, so that when a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’. To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.
‘If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there’?
She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.
difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you. But with
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”’
