Performancing Metrics

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❝ We are always getting ready to live, but never living. ❞
Ralph Waldo Emerson

❝ In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. ❞
Ralph Waldo Emerson

❝ If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person. ❞
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via asymptotejournal)
❝ There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves. ❞
Virginia Woolf - The Years

❝ Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life. ❞
Pablo Neruda
❝ Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ❞
Aldous Huxley

❝ Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. ❞
Albert Camus

❝ She was extending a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence. ❞
Jonathan Safran Foer (via rabbitinthemoon)
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