We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.
– W.H. Auden
Category: Quotes
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Fix Me
People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
– Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Here This Or Not
Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later — the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui — these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
I Miss You
Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Let it Devour You
How do I make myself full again? she asked. You turn to the moon, and you let it devour you, he answered.
– Fragment 16
Hurt and Heal
I like to think the same words that hurt can heal. It’s a matter of how you pick them.
– George Carlin
Just in Case
Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
– Virginia Woolf
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