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“You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make.”
― Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
― Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
“Es muy asombroso, para quien se toma el trabajo de reflexionar sobre este punto, que los hombres estén constituidos de tal modo que son unos para otros un misterio impenetrable.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“At times I think of human relationships as something soft like sand or water, and by pouring them into particular vessels we give them shape.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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