Jonathan

“Sure. For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination. The person in reality is just a template used for the creation of this dream lover. Eventually, they find out the differences between their dream lover and the template. If they can get used to those differences, then they can be together. If not, they split up. It’s as simple as that. You differ from the majority in one respect: You didn’t need a template.”
― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest

“eloquence. “From the very beginning,” he pronounced, “you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; that is a law of nature.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“From the very beginning,” he pronounced, “you began with a lie; what began with a lie was bound to end with a lie; that is a law of nature.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“The effect of such compression is the reduction in the degree of detected randomness.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets