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“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
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“It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.”
― The Snow Leopard
― The Snow Leopard
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
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“I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.”
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Zalman’s 2025 Year in Books
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