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Sam
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Sam
rated a book it was amazing
Reading for the 2nd time
read in December 2006
Sam said:
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Book one of "The Sarantine Mosaic." As stated elsewhere, this is at the top of my favorite Kay book list with "Lions..." In this series, Kay mixes the art of mosaic into his writing. His description of the artists feelings toward their art will bring
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“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”
― Survival in Auschwitz
― Survival in Auschwitz
“Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.”
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“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
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“[A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I’ve ever said about any other car obsolete. It’s rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.”
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“We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.”
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