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Memento Mori
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If you don’t remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can’t cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.”
“God,’ said Jackson Lamb. ‘Is it me, or did all the fun go out of everything round about 1979?”
― Slow Horses
― Slow Horses
“He needed that time edged with boredom in which fantasy could flourish.”
― The Innocent
― The Innocent
“There’s nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that a post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
“Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don’t believe.”
― Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans
― Borges and the Eternal Orang-Utans
“Then I started thinking about tears. What was evolution up to when it rendered the human body incapable of concealing sadness? Is it somehow crucial to the survival of the species that we can’t hide our melancholy? Why? What’s the evolutionary benefit of crying? To elicit sympathy? Does evolution have a Machiavellian streak?”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
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