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“How wise of the founders to hide a kernel of truth within something so absurd. Who among the rational would search for it there?”
“The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.”
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
“Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
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