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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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“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 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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“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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“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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“From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain?”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

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