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For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.
“People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know.”
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
― コンビニ人間 [Konbini ningen]
“To the ancient Greeks, myths were the same as history—they believed that all of the fantastical events in them had really happened once upon a time. The myths were their way of making sense of the past, even as far back as how the world was created.”
― Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece
― Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece
“All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!”
― Dune
― Dune
“Proust asserted in Contre Sainte-Beuve, “what the intellect offers us under the name of the past is not the past. The past is hidden outside the realm of our intelligence and beyond its reach.”
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
― Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp
“the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff”
― Ducks, Newburyport
― Ducks, Newburyport
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