“Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.”
― The Brothers K
― The Brothers K
“A mistake. He should not have remembered. It was dangerous to go lurking in memory. The new erases the old where they meet.”
― The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
― The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
“Anything worthwhile takes time. Maybe that's what time is for: to give meaning to the things we do; to create a context in which we can linger in something until, finally, we have given it something invaluable, something that we can never get back: time. And once we've invested the most precious commodity that we will ever have, it suddenly has meaning and importance. So maybe time is just how we measure meaning. Maybe time is how we best measure love.”
― Hell of a Book
― Hell of a Book
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