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“My biography is a string of coincidences, many of my own choosing, but some of which chose me.”

Book:Knjiga o Uni

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“An incurable spring mood took possession of every thought and every tuft of grass, upsetting the schedules of airborne insects, which collided in the aerial avenues. There was drunkenness in the earth and the air that announced the birth of something splendid. Spring is that miracle that materializes like fireworks in the sky, when the shapeliness of every girl and woman is hormonally magnetic and that little Krakatoa in your trousers is primed to erupt.”

Spring Quiet Flows The Una

Book:Knjiga o Uni

Source: Knjiga o Uni

“Justice, like love, is a feeling that can’t be limited to a definition.”

Motivational

Book:Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right

Source: Just Rights : Why Justice Should be A Fundamental Right

“Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

“The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:A Perfectly Good Family

Source: A Perfectly Good Family

“...most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

“When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

“Rousseau introduced the idea of false needs, and showed how the systems we live in work against our growing up: they dazzle us with toys and bewilder us with so many trivial products that we are too busy making silly choices to remember that the adult ones are made by others.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

“He remembered being here with Clark at three or four sometimes five in the morning, during what seemed at the time like adulthood and seemed in retrospect like a dream.”

Melancholy Adult Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Station Eleven

Source: Station Eleven

“Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

“We want to make an impact on the world, but we end up making or selling playthings that are developed to keep us distracted and designed to deconstruct. We have turned the activities that were meant to be the stuff of life into mere means of subsisting in it.”

Adulthood Growing Up Philosophy

Book:Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

Source: Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age

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