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“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“Thỉnh thoảng, các nhà khoa học xã hội có nói về khái niệm "căn tính". Đó là quan niệm cho rằng bạn có một tầm nhìn cụ thể về kiểu người của mình và bạn cảm thấy tệ hại khi làm những việc chệch ra khỏi tầm nhìn đó. Điều này dẫn bạn tới chỗ thực hiện những hành động có vẻ không vì lợi ích tốt nhất của mình.”
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“The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.”
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
― World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.”
― Inferno
― Inferno
“Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other… ”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
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