The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone__ thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone__ claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone__ thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone__ claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
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