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A mole does not just foment mistrust. Like a heretic, he undermines the coherence of faith itself.
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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“I was poised on its dizzy summit,”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
“And so it goes...”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“And, without question, all those different planes, upon which Time, since I had regained it at this reception, had exhibited my life, by reminding me that in a book which gave the history of one, it would be necessary to make use of a sort of spatial psychology as opposed to the usual flat psychology, added a new beauty to the resurrections my memory was operating during my solitary reflections in the library, since memory, by introducing the past into the present without modification, as though it were the present, eliminates precisely that great Time-dimension in accordance with which life is realised.”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
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