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Alex Krzyminski
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“A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.”
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“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.”
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“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“With slow care rather than stealth we must approach the subject of a certain woman. Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. Should I move recklessly, I might startle even the idea of her into sudden flight.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“In both jokes and dreams, Freud observed, meanings are condensed and displaced, things are represented indirectly or by their opposites, fallacious reasoning trumps logic. Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner "censor.”
― Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
― Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
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