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    Albert Camus
    “I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Fall
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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    Andrzej Sapkowski
    “Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.”
    ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish
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    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
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    William Gibson
    “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: cyberpunk, cyberspace, internet
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    Franz Kafka
    “But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
    tags: death, guilty, human, human-condition, life, mistakes, priest, trial
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  • #7
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #8
    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
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    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
    ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
    ― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
    tags: political-philosophy
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Camus
    “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #16
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: inspirational
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: cynic
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    Martha Wells
    “I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don't know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.”
    ― Martha Wells, All Systems Red
    tags: entertainment, humor, media, murder
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    Albert Camus
    “I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Stranger
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
    tags: prison
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    “Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
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  • #24
    “I really wanted to talk to her.
    I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
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  • #25
    “But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: comprehension, intelligence, pattern-matching
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  • #26
    “People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: blindsight, humanity, nature
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  • #27
    “Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: space, stars
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