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“He felt at times that he was a kind of vegetable, and he longed for something—even pain—to pierce him, to bring him alive.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
“I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
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