Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes, you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it’s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature
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“There are no heroes, Tian Haoli. Grand Secretary Shi was both courageous and cowardly, capable and foolish. Wang Xiuchu was both an opportunistic survivor and a man of greatness of spirit. I’m mostly selfish and vain, but sometimes even I surprise myself. We’re all just ordinary men—well, I’m an ordinary demon—faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”
― Red Mars
― Red Mars
“the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― North Woods
― North Woods
“grief is the metabolization of change.”
― Inciting Joy: Essays
― Inciting Joy: Essays
“History is the error we are forever correcting.” —Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno”
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
― Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
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