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“How music works—the theory, the practice—is learnable.” Jasper prizes the lid off the coffee. “Why it works, God only knows. Maybe not even God.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
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“I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
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