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Originally Posted by madnak
Everyone seems to think that spouting platitudes memorized from some inspirational quotations book makes them all wise and mature and above such petty diversions as thinking and reasoning. They are everywhere, and the worst part is having to nod and smile and say "that's really deep, I'll have to remember that one."
For some reason this makes me want to post a quote, so here's one you'll have to remember:
"It is the iron rule in our day to require an object and a purpose
in life. It makes us all parts of a complicated scheme of progress,
which can only result in our arrival at a colder and drearier
region than we were born in. It insists upon everybody adding
somewhat---a mite, perhaps, but earned by incessant effort---to an
accumulated pile of usefulness, of which the only use will be, to
burden our posterity with even heavier thoughts and more inordinate
labor than our own. No life wanders now like an unfettered stream;
there is a mill-wheel for the tiniest rivulet to turn. We go all
wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne,
The Marble Faun
Lol I'm losing my mind. (At least. (I think. (I am.)))