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Siddhartha
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Everything was a lie, everything stank, everything stank of lies, everything feigned meaning and happiness and beauty, and yet everything was decaying while nobody acknowledged the fact. The world tested bitter; life was agony.
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of human life and motives is not moral estimates but more knowledge.”
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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.”
― How the Mind Works
― How the Mind Works
“Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.”
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