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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

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I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of ...more

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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

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Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

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You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, onl...more

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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

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He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because yo...more

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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie Ma...more

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The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable."Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a re...more

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

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In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no lev...more

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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.