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“The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life—or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window—is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are�
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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Operation Einstein
― Operation Einstein

“Loss and loneliness, loneliness being the sadder and grayer of the two. Loss means that someone beloved is irretrievable, and as bad as that is, a person can eventually accept the fact of permanent absence. But loneliness is terrible because it's specific, open-ended, and alive. You want precisely whom you want, no one else, and it's torturous because they're out there somewhere but you can't be with them - and that's when you realize that the hollow isolation in your gut will never go away.”
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“Sartre argues that freedom terrifies us, yet we cannot escape it, because we are it.”
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

“To think the way you do,� he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death

“We don’t have time to be ourselves. We only have time to be happy.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death

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