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“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.
Your first parent was a star.”
― Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Your first parent was a star.”
― Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
“This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing
is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.”
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is to be pure. What you get is to be changed.”
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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.”
― The Passion
― The Passion
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