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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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