“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
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“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity, But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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