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But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really. Â It just went away after a while.
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One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
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Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
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I know,' said Erin, and described how she'd lately felt depressed in a new and scary way, which Paul also had felt…
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything…
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He sometimes felt that life was something that had already risen, and all of this, the Jackson Pollack of spring, summer, and…
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The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.
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I can feel the universe expanding and making things be further apart.
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Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -…
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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is…
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You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort…
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loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only…
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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
— Martin Esslin
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing…
— William James
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
— Ben Okri
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My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness…
— Hayden Carruth
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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
— Stanley Kubrick
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For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation…
— Aldous Huxley
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The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
— Paul Tillich
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…
— Fred Hoyle
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Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive,
— Questlove
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One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars…
— John Silber
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Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces…
— Marianne Williamson
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