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She is smiling at me. It is a wistful smile. The kind of smile no one is capable of before the age of forty. The kind that contains sadness and defiance and amusement all at once.


“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
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“I was now on slow time, and in the space between the stars, slow was ideal. Slow conserved now-precious energy and allowed now-precious energy to be gathered. Slow allowed for precision and creativity on a scale that humans would not be able to fathom. Creativity for me was not about passion or bursts of ingenuity, but slow, patient iteration, approaching the problem again and again, over and over, slight variation upon slight variation. I was not programmed to be frustrated, and I saw little reason to build that quality into myself.”
― Slow Time Between the Stars
― Slow Time Between the Stars

“Here I understand what is meant by glory: the right to love without limits.”
― Lyrical and Critical Essays
― Lyrical and Critical Essays

“MTFBWYA, Parzival”
― Ready Player One
― Ready Player One

“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. It is derived, no doubt, from love of home and desire for a refuge from danger; we find, accordingly, that it is most passionate in those whose lives are most exposed to catastrophe.”
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
― A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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