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“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“We hope to show that it is possible to read humanity's development as a dismemberment of sorcery, and propose that our current over-specialised and compartmentalised world of ideas is built entirely from the bloody gobbets of a butchered, pre-existing dreamtime.”
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“...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“This is clearly not to suggest that religion should be outlawed or that anyone should be prevented from pursuing his or her beliefs, simply to remark that there is no compelling reason why any religion should be allowed to impose its dictates on a population, nor have influence upon the policies of any rational society.”
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Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
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