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“Tension can build up and live and fester, creep into in the smallest corners of daily life. This a move back toward regularity, to predictability. We all want certainty.”

"They stay together because it's expected, because it's what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. And the more I think about, the more I think there's nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It's immoral."

“Why do people stay together?"

"Because they love each other. They're committed to each other. They depend on each other. There's comfort there, security.”

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

“Beauty isn't fleeting. Beauty is eternal.
But...'m not. I'm fleeting.“

"What if it never comes? The storm. The rain. We act like it has to come, like it's inevitable because it has always come before, but what if a storm doesn't come this time and things just keep going on and on like this forever? What then?”

“Whats impossible becomes not only achievaple but then is also quickly forgotten when the next impossibility becomes the new pursuit.”

“Doesn’t life have to be determined by each individual, and be involved to be legitimate? Doesn’t there have to be an element of challenge and progression?”

“The privilege of being human is that our brains are big enough to decide the fate of other creatures.”

“The only constant quality of humanness is that we adapt. Always."