comradewisdom

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Every true lover knows that if you really love a woman or a man, that you don't idealize him or her. Love means that you accept a person with all its failures, stupidities, ugly points and nonetheless the person's absolute for you: everything that makes life worth living. You see perfection in imperfection itself. And that's how we should learn to love the world. True ecologists love all this: *points to piles of trash*

Slavoj Žižek, Examined Life (2008)

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"If you have reasons to love someone, you don't love them.

Slavoj Žižek

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We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, and have less to offer each time we start with someone new.

Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

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We fear to choose. To choose is to commit yourself. And to commit yourself is to run the risk, is to run the risk of failure, the risk of betrayal. The man who makes a mistake can repent. But the man who hesitates, who does nothing, who buries his talent in the earth, with him we can do nothing.

Father Quintana, To the Wonder (secularized)

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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Nietzsche

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There is nothing more useful to a man than a man. Men, I repeat, can wish for nothing more helpful to their staying in existence than that all men should be in such harmony that the minds and bodies of them all would be like one mind and one body; that all together should try as hard as they can and to stay in existence; and that all together should seek for themselves the common advantage of all.

Spinoza

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"...there is no love in the past. Only the present."

Measurehead, Disco Elysium

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It’s no wonder we torture ourselves between past and so many nightmares to-be; Where is ‘now’?—they ask, so split asunder by what dreadfully was and will doubtfully be.

Winston

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Here is the secret: there is no love in the past. Only the present. The past is made of static images, distorted memories, demented nostalgia. This, the present — with all its possibilities, innumerable hits and misses — is far superior. It is a living organism.

Measurehead, Disco Elysium

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I rather have it this way than yours; No joy, no hate, no fear. Unbreakable, without growth. Immortal, without passion.

Ushotan, to Constantin Valdor

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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

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No—not a disaster. Weave this into the story of you. Walk out of its ruins.

Volition, Disco Elysium

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Plans are the delusion of man. We make them to feel safe and to secure the future. But the future is a shapeshifter—a fluid trickster. It is mercurial and ever changing. No plan can fix it, nor pin it down.

Malcador The Sigilite

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Happiness is the daughter of Suffering, birthed by Joy.

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I have never needed anyone. But I want you.

Minthara, Baldur's Gate 3

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O mother, O most cherished wife and child. It seems vengeance was not mine to enact. Where now should I point my tired blade...

Hornsent, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

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It is the Karui way to observe nature in nature. The fish without the sea is no longer a fish. It is dinner.

Siosa, Path of Exile