just doing what you feel like only sounds like freedom until you try it and realize that now you have to figure out what you really feel like doing
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Replying to @chaosprime
Let me quote from my saved quotes about war: "Every empire crumbles. Every man dies. In the end we are all forgotten. Our lives are like sparks from a fire, gone in a heartbeat. All we can do is burn as brightly as possible. Tell me something, Mr. Wood. I am a rich man. 1/8?
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Replying to @anti_nihilist @chaosprime
I have enough money for all the rest of my life. And the list of those who would like me dead is long. Why do you think I do not retire to Amsterdam, to safety?" I resigned myself to being the straight man in this Socratic dialogue. "Because you think what you do is important?"
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"That is part of it," Sinisa said. "Until the world sees sense and throws open its borders, someone must do what I do, operate the escape valve for those who need it. But more than that, it is because, to me, a comfortable life is no life at all. Have you ever seen war?"
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"Not really," I said, a little taken aback. "When I came here from Holland, as a peacekeeper, I was young, troubled, without direction. I drank too much. I took drugs. Do you know when that changed? The first time I was shot at, in Srebrenica. The intensity of it.
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Every breath, every motion, was an event, because I knew it might be my last. Most people in Holland, all the rich Western nations, they go decades without living as intensely as I did in those few seconds. After the war, Holland seemed a country of shadows. Meaningless.
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Replying to @anti_nihilist @chaosprime
Like living without color. I decided then that I would not live half a life. I would not follow the laws that gray old men write because they are afraid. You have no place in this world, not truly, unless you have fought for it. A home is not a home unless you have conquered it.
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Replying to @anti_nihilist @chaosprime
You have done nothing with your life unless you have built an empire from dust. One day your empire will crumble back to dust. One day it will be forgotten. One day you will die. That is not important. It is the fighting and the building that matter." - Blood Price, Jon Evans
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Replying to @anti_nihilist @chaosprime
Wow, that's... completely irrelevant to your original tweet.pic.twitter.com/MfNxeJRrKD
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Replying to @anti_nihilist @chaosprime
I can't figure out if: a) I was too drunk to realize the box said "reply" and not "compose tweet" b) delusionally saw some "deeper connection" between the two c) REALLY wanted people to see this and thought this was the ideal vector b/c you have more followers
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oh well in case it's C let me RT the money shot there
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