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“the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn’t.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and his colleague Leslie Orgel have suggested that Earth was “deliberately seeded with life by intelligent aliens,” an idea that Gribbin calls “at the very fringe of scientific respectability”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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