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“Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.”
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“You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“She said being human is being a young child on Christmas Day who receives an absolutely magnificent castle. And there is a perfect photograph of this castle on the box and you want more than anything to play with the castle and the knights and the princesses because it looks like such a perfectly human world, but the only problem is that the castle isn’t built. It’s in tiny intricate pieces, and although there’s a book of instructions you don’t understand it. And nor can your parents or Aunt Sylvie. So you are just left, crying at the ideal castle on the box which no one would ever be able to build”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“There is a moral to it. It teaches that a man defines himself by his make-believe as well as by his sincere impulses.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“You are all desperate for purpose, even though you don’t have one. You’re animals, and animals don’t have a purpose. Animals just are. And there are a lot of intelligent - sentient, maybe - animals out there who don’t have a problem with that. They just go on breathing and mating and eating each other without a second thought. But the animals like you - the ones who make tools and build cities and itch to explore, you all share a need for purpose. For reason . That thinking worked well for you, once.”
― A Closed and Common Orbit
― A Closed and Common Orbit
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