

“We're more than the sum total of our choices, that all the paths we might have taken factor somehow into the math of our identity.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
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“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables

“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.”
― Light Years
― Light Years
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