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Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.
Sep 10, 2025
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.
Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
The things you used to own, now they own you.
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
The things you own end up owning you.
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
I don't want to die without a few scars.
I just don't want to die without a few scars.
Self improvement is masturbation.
"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
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