underscored

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The universe is not a prison, nor yet a playground; it is a loom, and we are simultaneously the shuttle and the thread. What we call fate is only pattern seen from outside.

— Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)
2mo ago

We are condemned to be free; and with that freedom comes the anguish of choosing, for in choosing we define what man ought to be, and there is no escaping the weight of that definition.

2mo ago

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

4mo ago

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

5mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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