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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“I was becoming addicted, Diotallevi was becoming corrupted, Belbo was becoming converted. But all of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Your children will be sad," I tell Franny, "but they will not die because you die. They will live and laugh and love with everything you have given them in their hearts forever. They will discover you in unexpected moments and places for the rest of their lives.”
― The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
― The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift
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