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Ben Lindon
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It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.
“From all this we may learn that there are two races of men in this world, but only these two — the “race” of the decent man and the “race” of the indecent man. Both are found everywhere; they penetrate into all groups of society. No group consists entirely of decent or indecent people.”
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“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
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“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
― On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
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