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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

by Ken Liu (Goodreads Author)

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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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“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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“That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.…”
― 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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“We are dedicated to building an ideal society, where the labor and value of every member of the human race are fully respected, where everyone’s material and spiritual needs are fully met, so that civilization on Earth may become more perfect.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

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