Zach Kirshner

“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.” — Albert Camus

certain breakups really oneshot people because they trigger all your attachment trauma at once and the pain specifically is about the breakup which becomes a representation of your core personal failure to be loved not the relationship. and there’s a massive difference between most breakups (which suck) and breakups that literally ruin people’s liv... See more

on intellectuals in the Qing Dynasty: "In the local areas, most of the intellectuals did not go elsewhere to serve as officials, but instead became local gentry, living in harmony with their small universe. They neither needed nor desired outside recognition, and whether the outside world ... See more