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“reality is not a thing conferred upon us or which exists; it is something that we have to manufacture ourselves.”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

“Out of the darkness beneath the shallow, weedy stream of his being rose a question, a question that looked up dimly and never reached the surface. It was the question of the wonder of the beauty, the purposeless, inconsecutive beauty, that falls so strangely among the happenings and memories of life. It never reached the surface of his mind, it never took to itself substance or from; it looked up merely as the phantom of a face might look, out of deep waters, and sank again into nothingness.”
― H.G. Wells, Kipps

“COUNT ZERO INTERRUPT—On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter zero.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero

“. . . if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And when we cease to grow, we begin to die.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading