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“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.)”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Don't be brainwashed by the sun fascists - fair-weather Cumulus have a starring role in the perfect summer's day.”
― The Cloudspotter's Guide
― The Cloudspotter's Guide
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.”
― We
― We
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