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“We’ll understand some things while we’re alive and some after we die. But it doesn’t really matter when it happens. What matters is that all the pain and all the sadness have meaning.”
Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else. Maybe
They’re scared to admit there’s anything they don’t understand. They can’t do anything on their own, so they band together, but they aren’t really friends, and when something in the world stands out, they get scared and try to destroy it. They try to get rid of it.
“Nobody does anything because they have the right. They do it because they want to.”
Smells can remind you of all kinds of things. More than remind, they bypass your mind altogether, tingling your palms and nose, triggering feelings before they even become feelings.
