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Born To Have Nothing

Born To Have Nothing

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Stowe Boyd
May 16, 0002
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There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.

| James Salter, Light Years, cited by Galen Strawson in I am not a story

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I wrote this in 2018, as Know Your Limitations but couldn’t find it here on my Substack. Now published as Born To Have Nothing.

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