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“This is the challenge of life, isn’t it? Moving forward without annihilating what has gone before. Knowing what to clasp onto and what to release without destroying yourself. Trying not to be the meteor and the dinosaur at once. There was also, in the front aisle nearest”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
― Common Sense
― Common Sense
“Don’t worry, confusion has its uses. Indeed, the willingness to be confused, I now realise, is a prerequisite for a good life. Wanting things to be simple can become a kind of prison, it really can, because you end up staying trapped inside how you want things to be rather than embracing how they could be. You end up closed. You end up shutting doors to so many possibilities.”
― The Life Impossible
― The Life Impossible
“Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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