But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“She ranted about how evil doesn't know it is evil, like the mad don't know they're insane. That America doesn't think it has invaded too many democracies and killed too many innocents. That we shouldn't let them slaughter like the worst tyrants and drop bombs on children. That there's nothing exceptional about a country built on genocide and the backs of slaves.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair. Many get luck, and many get misery. Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. In the end, all becomes dust. All stories conclude with a fade to black.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“For atheists there are only moral choices.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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