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“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.”
― Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
― Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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