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“Every beautiful thing cracks and shatters and collapses and crumples and bleeds. If not now, it will eventually.”
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
“...We humans are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“If you’re going to write about love, write it in pencil.”
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
― The Impossible Fairy Tale
“The truth is we don’t know what we don’t know. We don’t even know the questions we need to ask in order to find out, but when we learn one tiny little thing, a dim light comes on in a dark hallway, and suddenly a new question appears. We spend decades, centuries, millennia, trying to answer that one question so that another dim light will come on. That’s science, but that’s also everything else, isn’t it? Try. Experiment. Ask a ton of questions.”
― Transcendent Kingdom
― Transcendent Kingdom
“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life.” Oliver Sacks”
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
― Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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