- I go to seek a Great Perhaps - Francois Rabelias
- You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imaging that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- "Hold on." He grabbed a pencil and scrawled excitedly at the paper as if he'd just made a mathematical breakthrough, and then looked back up at me. "I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit."
- "You reek of smoke, Pudge." "Ask me if I give a shit."
- How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realise we are lost in a maze.
- picture of placidity
- condescending prick
- I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
- He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realised: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
- Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I'm sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I'm gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you're gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you - they came together, grew together and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: entropy increases. Things fall apart.
- "Do you feel drunk?" "If drunk were cookies, I'd be Famous Amos." "Chips Ahoy! would have been funnier." "Forgive me. Not at my best."
dec 15 2012 ∞
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