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“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
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“Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.”
― Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
― Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale

“Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders?”
― Speaking from Among the Bones
― Speaking from Among the Bones

“Dans ce trou noir ou lumineux vit la vie, rêve la vie, souffre la vie.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
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