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Book cover for Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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The loss of a trowel is cause for much wailing. But if a man falls, and his trowel remains, men are secretly relieved. The next one to drop his trowel can pick up the extra one and continue working, without incurring debt.”

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“I must start at the beginning – a beginning so long ago that its horizon is a vanishing point at the convergence of two Euclidian lines that would be parallel by any human measure.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

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“And it’s all because God, or the Lord she talked about, can’t even protect Himself anymore.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

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“That’s how salvation works. The wrongs we do open doors to do right.”
― Mitch Albom, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven

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“But what worse fate could there be? To remember love and know it is unattainable? To know love wanders somewhere light-years and light-years distant, ever knowing it is forever out of reach? Forever hidden? So I pick up another book.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

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