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Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays

Book by Michael Vito Tosto · 11 quotes · Life, Humanity, Reality

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“My life has often been characterized by a perpetual desire to be somewhere other than wherever I am at any given moment.”

Life Philosophy Desire Essays

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“I sometimes think the entire human species is just a fucked-up tapestry woven out of little particles of prolonged sadness, living next to one another in sustained dissonance, reacting to each other and to the bitter truths of the Universe, replicating themselves and their sorrow on and on and on, with no end in sight save for the virus that finally wipes us and our grotesque dysfunction from the surface of the planet once and for all.”

Humanity Universe Sadness Virus Tapestry Dissonance

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“The rain lies to us. Ah, but how sweet are the words of deception it whispers to the many broken souls among our kind, a pitiful bunch of dreamers with which I irrevocably belong.”

Soul Humanity Rain Words Deception Dreamer

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“Whatever is going on inside the hearts of people today, I want no part of it. Besides, it’s not like I can change it. I could shout on the street corner all day and no one will really hear me. And since I have no interest in throwing straw wrenches into societal gears that aren’t going to be stopped anyway, I don’t care anymore. I just don’t fucking care.”

Life Heart Society Isolation Seclusion

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“Every time I exit my lair and venture out among the multitudes, I’m always bringing my isolation with me.”

Writing Society Loneliness Isolation

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“If there was one message I could be known for in the years and centuries after I’m gone, one message for which I’m remembered, if I am remembered at all, it would be the urgent bulletin I’m delivering right here and now: where you are now and what you are now—at this precise moment—is absolutely, one hundred percent okay… and accepting yourself right now for who and what and where you are is not only your best bet, it’s your only bet.”

Life Acceptance Self Confidence Essays Message

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“I write to better acquaint myself with my own thoughts and feelings. I don’t know how other people process existence, but if I don’t get it down on the page, I’ll never really understand it.”

Writing Feelings Existence Thoughts Page

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“I’m paving my own road, confronting (or at least trying to confront), the storm the only way I know how: from a quiet place of solitude and reflection where all my demons can be heard the loudest. I don’t do this because I like their song. I do this because I want them dead.”

Life Solitude Quiet Reflection Demons Quietude

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“The regrettable fact of our reality is that life is always lived in the retrospect. We never know what is to come, and most of us haven’t learned how to live in the now. As such, all we have is the past.”

Life Reality Future Now Retrospect Part

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“Depression is what naturally occurs when the conditions of reality do not match our misguided expectations, when the fruition of what we think ought to characterize existence fails to manifest. It’s the ensuing dissonance we feel when what we believe should be falls short of what is.”

Life Reality Existence Depression Expectations Dissonance

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“Reality is designed to keep people lost.”

People Humans Reality Humanity Holes Designed

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