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When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
― Slade House
― Slade House
“The romanticism of struggle is over. What remains are the utterly naked facts. The cult of personality and its collapse. Rethinking of everything. The masks are off (the mask of religion, the mask of heroism…).”
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“For one voyage to begin, another voyage must come to an end, sort of.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.”
― Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
― Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives
“It has been said with some truth that religion is, basically, humankind's attempt to communicate with the weather.”
― Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
― Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction
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