“Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“A man's face is the surface of a pond, reflecting the sky, reflecting the trees, reflecting whatever is the object of his gaze and his love, the reflection hiding his depths. But when the wave passes, in the swell, for an instant, you can see what lies beneath the waters.”
― The Blood Mirror
― The Blood Mirror
“When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.”
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“I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”
― Pippi Longstocking
― Pippi Longstocking
“And what do all good stories do? They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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