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“So, in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do both, depending on the season and the need.
“The thought of just how inadequate the body's natural defenses --skull, bone, brain-- were in the face of the advanced physics-- lead, gun-powder, momentum -- of invented death. It all seemed so absurd to him: that a life comprising so many accumulated years could be interrupted with such indifferent swiftness.”
― The Blinds
― The Blinds
“Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
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“My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed.”
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
― Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
“But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now—this very instant—your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man—and that this is certain, certain!”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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