“None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.”
“A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.”
“It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.”
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
“Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else”
“Any future can be!” she replied, laughing at me. “If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?”
“They need other people to make them think they’re alive. They only feel like they’re important if someone else tells them they are.”
“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
“But I found out that they were part of a façade that he adopted. When the clothes came off, so did Madoc’s mask. At night when he’d hang out in just jeans and nothing else, it was like I was seeing an entirely different guy. Strong. Powerful. Mine.”
“Stands at the sea,
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe”
“After all, he thinks conscience is a sort of vermiform appendix. Chop it out and you’ll feel all the better.”
“Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own community? Study of the tides of conflict and power in a system in which there is structural inequality is an important task. A knowledge of European intellectual history since 1789 provides a useful background. Information theory offers interesting new possibilities. Passion is helpful, especially those types of passion which are non licit. Doubt is a necessary precondition to meaningful action. Fear is the great mover, in the end.”
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