“Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we’re hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does that make you?”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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