“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
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“Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
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