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One Quotes by Tao Lin
- One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
- Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is only one kind…
- You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
- Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in…
- There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable…
- does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction
- sad things are beautiful only from a distance therefore you just want to get away from them from a distance of one hundred and thirty…
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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