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Youth, Rin thought, was an amplification of beauty. It was a filter; it could mask what one was lacking, enhance even the most average features. But beauty without youth was dangerous. The Empress’s beauty did not require the soft fullness
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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
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“I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh-so-narrow slice between that memories are made. So”
― Red Sister
― Red Sister
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
“I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.
I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.”
― The Animals
I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.”
― The Animals
“Comparison is poison. The poison is available at any time. It detracts from very real accomplishments and it hides all the steps and hardships required along the way to any achievement, even the hard work required from a prodigy. The trick is to look inward”
― Ray Vs the Meaning of Life
― Ray Vs the Meaning of Life
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