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“We are sorry, we are sorry.
Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.”
― Circe
Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong.”
― Circe
“But formulas are holy as prayers, decree-laws, and dead languages, and not an iota in them can be changed. And so my ammonium chloride, the twin of a happy love and a liberating book, by now completely useless and a bit harmful, is religiously ground into the chromate anti-rust paint on the short of that lake, and nobody knows why anymore.”
― The Periodic Table
― The Periodic Table
“Today I know that it is a hopeless task to try to dress a man in words, make him alive again on the printed page, especially a man like Sandro. He was not the sort of person you can tell stories about, nor to whom one erects monuments--he who laughed at monuments: he lived completely in his deeds, and when they were over nothing of him remains--nothing but words, precisely.”
― The Periodic Table
― The Periodic Table
“Change, I've come to understand, rises up like nausea: the promise of relief is what makes it bearable.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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