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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
― Cat's Cradle
― Cat's Cradle
“Time may pass, but the memory of the people we've loved doesn't grow old. It is only we who age.”
― The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
― The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I related to the guillotine the most: I, too, was a direct descendant of gravity, born from women who belonged inside their countries the way blades belonged inside a body.”
― Bestiary
― Bestiary
“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
― In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
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