"What is it about sadness that can be so fulfilling?"

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Source : Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.38, Vintage Canada

Lori Lansens

#Sadness Quotes #Fulfilling Quotes

“I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.”
“Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.”
“We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”
“Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.”
“If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.”
“If I want to know how we learn and remember and represent the world, I will go to psychology and neuroscience. If I want to know where values come from, I will go to evolutionary biology and neuroscience and psychology, just as Aristotle and Hume would have, were they alive.”

Source : "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”

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