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by Emily Brontë
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read in March 2014
“Fear can resemble a crackling sound in a frozen ditch.”
― The Ice Palace
― The Ice Palace
“My point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“A life lived in a simulation is still a life.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“This is the strange lesson of living in a pandemic: life can be tranquil in the face of death.”
― Sea of Tranquility
― Sea of Tranquility
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