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It is deeply moving that an old man so close to his death had more questions than answers, as Cormac McCarthy does in Stella Maris.This book is so uncompromisingly profound and complex that I quickly accepted I would understand only a fraction of it— ...more "
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"In this moment I’m watching over a small girl named Stella(her real name). She is born with a rare condition and without eyeballs. She can’t speak and I don’t know if she knows she or the world exists. Stroking her head, lines like that hit different:
„Part of the puzzle of how we get from the mind to the world. A hundred billion synaptic events clicking away in the dark like blind ladies at their knitting“" — 15 hours, 15 min ago
"In this moment I’m watching over a small girl named Stella(her real name). She is born with a rare condition and without eyeballs. She can’t speak and I don’t know if she knows she or the world exists. Stroking her head, lines like that hit different:
„Part of the puzzle of how we get from the mind to the world. A hundred billion synaptic events clicking away in the dark like blind ladies at their knitting“" — 15 hours, 15 min ago
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"Completely flew over my head like psssh. Time travel, pandemic, hoverspaces. What is going on? Who is even speaking? Already past the halfway point and I didn’t care about anything. Maybe I’m the problem… I don‘t know… maybe I was always the problem, but I have honestly no idea why I should care about this thing." — Jul 09, 2026 03:30AM
"Completely flew over my head like psssh. Time travel, pandemic, hoverspaces. What is going on? Who is even speaking? Already past the halfway point and I didn’t care about anything. Maybe I’m the problem… I don‘t know… maybe I was always the problem, but I have honestly no idea why I should care about this thing." — Jul 09, 2026 03:30AM
“I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.”
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“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“Even if a universes's life span is calculable , the variety of life that is generated within it is not. The buildings we have erected, the art and music and verse we have composed, the very lives we've led: none of them could have been predicted, because none of them was inevitable... The fact that it {universe} spawned such plenitude is a miracle...”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”
― Less Than Zero
― Less Than Zero
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
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