Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity, curiosity, beauty, and joy. These are what truly makes us human.
Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
She wanted him to notice her so much.
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.