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“Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.’ She didn’t correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn’t tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“It is not that there are the starry heavens above and the moral law within, as Kant would have it; rather, the true basis of your virtuous existence is the fact that the starry heavens are within you, and you are within them.”
― The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom (Classical Texts in Critical Realism
― The Philosophy of MetaReality: Creativity, Love and Freedom (Classical Texts in Critical Realism
“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.”
― The Trees
― The Trees
“Nora had a familiar sense of grief. Only the sertraline stopped her crying. 'Oh God.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Contact collapse! That sounded pretty, bad didn't it, and also like the thing that was happening to the honeybees?”
― No One Is Talking About This
― No One Is Talking About This
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