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“By age seventeen he [Seymoure Sthulman]'d convinced himself that every human being he saw was a parasite, captive to the dictates of consumption. But as he reconstructs Zeno's translation, he realizes that the truth is infinitely more complicated, that we all are beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“A library, no mater how humble or grand, is a series of sacred gateways. You pass through them and leave your own city behind; you journey through time and space; and for a little while, you escape the confines of your own circumstances. Each of us who are readers gets to live through a multiplicity of eras; we get to tiptoe through, to borrow Jorge Luis Borge’s phrase, ‘a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent, and parallel times.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“Time: the most violent war engine of all.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“what's so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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