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  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    I want you to know that if I could make things go back to the way they were, I’d do it in a second. But, alas, there are no reverse gears in life.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    In the absence of compassion, selfishness is the most rational response of all.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Today, in a given tragedy, we can overlay the faces of our family, friends, and co-workers on only
    150 people. Beyond that, compassion fades, but not because we’re evil. Our emotional hardwiring can’t cope with it.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    One child dies in a well, the world watches and weeps. But as the number of victims increases, our compassion tends to diminish. At the highest number of casualties—wars, tsunamis, acts of terror—the dead become faceless statistics.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    I want to feel it. If I lose the ability to hurt, I also lose my grasp on joy—those brief moments of contentment that make consciousness worth the voyage.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Finally understood that free will did not exist, because I could not choose my desires, only whether to pursue them.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Right and wrong are constructs born of human sentiment. Nothing but stories we’ve made up and assigned meaning to. They don’t correspond to any objective reality. The only thing real is survival.”
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Higher intelligence doesn’t make you less greedy or self-centered or evil. It doesn’t necessarily make you a good person.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovhas quoted2 years ago
    Francis and I had always talked about buying an RV after we retired. Seeing all the places in the country we’d only ever seen on TV. Never thought I’d be doing it alone. And out of necessity. Life is endlessly surprising, isn’t it?
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