“It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”

—  Chuck Palahniuk , book Choke

Variant: It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
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