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“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Memory
― Memory
“La gente está hecha de historias. Nuestros recuerdos no son la acumulación imparcial de cada uno de los segundos que hemos vivido; son la narrativa que hemos ensamblado a partir de momentos escogidos. Y es por eso que, aun cuando hayamos experimentados los mismos acontecimientos que otros individuos, nunca construiremos narrativas idénticas: los criterios empleados para seleccionar momentos son distintos para cada cual, y un reflejo de nuestras personalidades.”
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
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