The Stranger
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“things have to go with a rush, like. You've hardly time to get used to the idea that someone's dead, before you're hauled off to the funeral.”
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the globe . . . The sea is only a receptacle for all the prodigious, supernatural things that exist inside it. It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Well, good, that's the idea. You scare the shit out of people so they can't see how scared you are.”
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“I'd tell them that you don't have to be anybody. Because I'd know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.”
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“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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