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People are oftentimes hideous or tedious. Sometimes they are both. So is the world.
“Sad people don’t often know that they are sad and bored.”
“The only job everyone loves is to be in other people’s way,” she said.
The good thing about life is that most of the time you do not have to audition to be yourself
What do you want to see? What do you want to eat? What do you want to know? These questions, seemingly innocuous, are more unreasonable than people realize. If you asked a cow, or a pig, or a chicken what it wanted to do with its life, it would have no idea how to answer, even if by some miracle it could understand and speak our language.
Life is most difficult for those who know what they want and also know what makes it impossible for them to get what they want. Life is still difficult, but less so, for those who know what they want but have not realized that they will never get it. It is the least difficult for people who do not know what they want.
The more we remember, the less we understand.
where does the desire to be right lead one, if not to the wrong place?
I have since encountered other versions of Catalina; each time I have to reeducate myself in avoiding people’s good intentions.
True blind rage is like true blind courage—if you have ever seen a squirrel trapped in a cage or a bird fly into a room by accident, you will understand this.
The past few months felt like a trance. No one stays in a trance forever, true, but no one, shaken awake, lives on without feeling a void inside. A trance is a displacement. A trance is a wound.
