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The Secret History
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"But isn't it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? Is it a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own? Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us?" Dec 27, 2025 08:36PM

 
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Walter Pater
“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is.

To such a tremulous wisp constantly reforming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down.”
Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Michael Crichton
“Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.”
Michael Crichton, Timeline

“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.”
Rachel Ward, Numbers

Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Alan Dean Foster
“Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design.”
Alan Dean Foster, Alien: Covenant

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