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“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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“People think that socialism is sustained by force—the forcible expropriation of property—but I wish they would just admit that capitalism is also sustained by exactly the same force in the opposite direction, the forcible protection of existing property arrangements.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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“You are moving out of the realm of fantasy "when I grow up" and adjusting to the reality that you're there; it's happening”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
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“I will probably continue to make poor life decisions and suffer recurrent depressive episodes”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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