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"Chapter 1 is very interesting so far. The focus on the female slave experience is absolutely fascinating. I'm learning a lot. Will update review with main takeaways from each chapter." — Jun 13, 2025 04:39AM
"Chapter 1 is very interesting so far. The focus on the female slave experience is absolutely fascinating. I'm learning a lot. Will update review with main takeaways from each chapter." — Jun 13, 2025 04:39AM
“In every life there is a moment. A crisis. One that says: what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference is how that knowledge changes them. In most cases, it is simply a case of burying that knowledge and pretending it isn’t there. That is how humans grow old. That is ultimately what creases their faces and curves their backs and shrinks their mouths and ambitions. The weight of that denial. The stress of it. This is not unique to humans. The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“A human life is on average eighty Earth years or around thirthy thousand Earth days. Which means they are born, they make some friends, eat a few meals, they get married or they don't get married, have a child or two, or not, drink a few thousand glasses of wine, have sexual intercourse a few times, discover a lump somewhere, feel a bit of regret, wonder where all the time went, know they should have done it differently, realize they would have done it the same, and then they die. Into the great black nothing. Out of space. Out of time. The most trivial of trivial zeroes. And that’s it, the full caboodle. All confined to the same mediocre planet.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“Thermodynamics is a funny subject.The first time you go through it,you don't understand it at all.The second time you go through it,you think you understand it,except for one or two points.The third time you go through it,you know you don't understand it,but by that time you are so used to the subject,it doesn't bother you anymore..”
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“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt”
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“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
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