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“Exile must be a terrible thing, said Norton sympathetically.
"Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate."
"But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that's important."
"That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano. "But again, I beg your pardon.”
― 2666
"Actually," said Amalfitano, "now I see it as a natural movement, something that, in its way, helps to abolish fate, or what is generally thought of as fate."
"But exile," said Pelletier, "is full of inconveniences, of skips and breaks that essentially keep recurring and interfere with anything you try to do that's important."
"That's just what I mean by abolishing fate," said Amalfitano. "But again, I beg your pardon.”
― 2666
“He who has seen the present has seen everything, that which happened in the most distant past and that which will happen in the future.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Theory in any branch of science entails a risk of detachment from reality”
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“You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“The dodo itself stands as the best emblem of this general truth - that insular evolution often involves transforming an adventurous, high-flying ancestor species into a grounded descendant, no longer capable of going anywhere but extinct. It's our reminder that insular evolution, for all its wondrousness, tends to be a one-way tunnel toward doom.”
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Keith’s 2025 Year in Books
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117 books
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10 friends
487 books
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76 friends
212 books
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131 friends
468 books
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830 books
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350 friends
31 books
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128 friends
80 books
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231 friends
327 books
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236 friends
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