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The thought came to him that knowledge could never be reached by mere fasting or bodily suffering, but must be gained by the opening of the mind. He had just barely escaped death from self-starvation, yet had not obtained the Perfect
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“Lots of people want to run away, but the ones who really do rarely announce it beforehand: they just go.”
― De avond is ongemak
― De avond is ongemak
“An empty space is a space for questions, not for answers. And what we don't know is infinite.”
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
“There is nothing better for a child than to grow up at the ends of the earth.”
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
“Time has the power to separate us, not only from others, but also from ourselves—a fact that’s hard to grasp. We know that time also separates us from circumstances that might have turned us into very different people.”
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
“There was suddenly a lot of talk of freedom, but I couldn't make much of this word freedom, which floated freely in all sorts of sentences. Freedom to travel? (But will we be able to afford it?) Or freedom of opinion? (But what if no one cares about my opinion?) Freedom to shop? (But what happens when we're finished shopping?) Freedom wasn't given freely, it came at a price, and the price was my entire life up to that point. The price was that everything that had been called the present until then was now called the past.”
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
― Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
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