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Title: Recursion Authors: Blake Crouch Category:#supplementals Number of Highlights: 10 Date: 2023-06-29 Last Highlighted: **
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Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.
Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the delusion that things could be controlled. Nothing can be controlled. Only endured.
Tags:#favorite,#existentialism,#perception
“Time is an illusion, a construct made out of human memory. There’s no such thing as the past, the present, or the future. It’s all happening now.”
Tags:#metaphysics
We think we’re perceiving the world directly and immediately, but everything we experience is this carefully edited, tape-delayed reconstruction.”
It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don’t, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity.
He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.
Tags:#favorite,#fear,#failing,#stoic,#perception
When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past…All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Tags:#stoic,#favorite,#perspective