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it’s a fool who tries to protect a creature from its own instincts.
A life’s impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.
I never expected this journey to be easy, so what right do I have to give up at the first hurdle?
“It’s not for the job. It’s for the violence we brought to the earth.”
He said our lives mean nothing except as a cycle of regeneration, that we are incomprehensibly brief sparks, just as the animals are, that we are no more important than they are, no more worthy of life than any living creature. That in our self-importance, in our search for meaning, we have forgotten how to share the planet that gave us life.
