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“I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.” “I doubt if I could cook one,” said Constance.
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“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
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“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
― The Physicists
― The Physicists
“The capacity for deluding ourselves that today's reality is the only true one, on the one hand, sustains us, but on the other, it plunges us into an endless void, because today's reality is destined to prove delusion for us tomorrow; and life doesn't conclude. It can't conclude. Tomorrow if it concludes, it's finished.”
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
― One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
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