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“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Van de mooiste dingen in het leven krijg je alleen maar meer als je ze weggeeft: vertrouwen, vriendschap, vrede.”
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
“Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
“[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen.”
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
― De meeste mensen deugen: Een nieuwe geschiedenis van de mens
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