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“Perfect understanding between beings is no guarantor of happiness. To perfectly understand another's madness, for instance, is to be mad oneself. The veil that separates earthly beings is, at times, a tragic barrier, but it is also, at times, a great kindness.”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
“I'm no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.”
― The Glass Hotel
― The Glass Hotel
“Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.”
― Quicksand
― Quicksand
“Just listen to these people. You'd swear they understood each other though not one of them has any idea what their words actually mean to another.”
― Fifteen Dogs
― Fifteen Dogs
“Pandemics don’t approach like wars, with the distant thud of artillery growing louder every day and flashes of bombs on the horizon. The arrive in retrospect, essentially. It’s disorienting. The pandemic is far away and then it’s all around you with seemingly no intermediate step.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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