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“But there was something about the number of choices that paralysed him. Rather like when it came to choosing a new book from the stacks. The knowledge that he couldn’t possibly read all the books on offer put a peculiar pressure on choosing his next read. There must be diamonds out there, the best book in a thousand, the best book in a million, and surely he didn’t want to waste his time reading one that was merely adequate when he could be reading one of those diamonds? So instead, he often wasted his time hunting for a read instead of reading.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“an ocean of knowledge is apt to drown you long before it educates you. The art of learning was in selection,”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“It unsettled her how the same words could mean such different things to different people. How it might be possible for two sets of eyes to witness the same events and later give accounts at odds with each other.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“People don’t want truth. They say that they do but what they mean is that they want the truth to agree with them.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
“All of us in our secret hearts, in our empty moments of contemplation, stumble into the understanding that nothing matters. There’s a cold shock of realisation and, in that moment, we know that nothing at all is of the least consequence. Ultimately, we’re all just spinning our wheels, seeking to avoid pain until the clock winds down and our time is spent. To give someone purpose is to free them, however briefly, from the spectre of that knowledge.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
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