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I pulled over and killed the engine. My fragile good spirits scattered in an instant, replaced by familiar symptoms.
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That is the beauty of how emotion has functioned throughout evolution: it allows the possibility of making living beings act smartly without having to think smartly.
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But real life doesn’t work the way Hollywood depicts it. Most people’s lives aren’t made up of stories with easily perceived beginnings and endings. Most people have to just muddle through as best they can, coming in somewhere in the middle, leaving before the outcome’s known, half the time not even aware that they’re in a story
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Denied our names, our faces,
we lie in the graves of our identity
with a stranger’s pennies on our eyes,
seeking to reclaim ourselves
from the spaces between
what we remember doing
and what we yet might do.
Sep. 18, 2011 at 8:54am with 341 notes
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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He said: “We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with motiveless despair.
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Il n’y a pas de soleil sans ombre; et il faut connaître la nuit.
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We only know of one duty. And that is to love.
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.” — Edsger Dijkstra
