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“He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this—that he knows nothing yet.’ ”]·”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“That’s the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
“You are very careful with your thinking when you pick up a week-old paper.”
― And The Rock Cried Out
― And The Rock Cried Out
“I know why those librarians read the old stories to you,” Rex says. “Because if it’s told well enough, for as long as the story lasts, you get to slip the trap.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’?
-’A happy one, of course.’
-’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.
-’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.
-’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
― Circe
-’A happy one, of course.’
-’Wrong. A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy yo a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred’.
-’But surely, I said, you have to reward him eventually. Otherwise he will stop offering’.
-’Oh, you would be surprised how long he will go on. But yes, in the end, it’s best to give him something. Then he will be happy again. And you can start over.”
― Circe
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