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“Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.”
― The Meaning of Human Existence
― The Meaning of Human Existence
“Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Disappointment is a beautiful woman reading Ayn Rand.”
― The Best American Short Stories 2011
― The Best American Short Stories 2011
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