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Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

by Russell Shorto (Goodreads Author)

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Shan’s Quotes

“No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't some thing that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Here's what hurts the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the bottom of the ocean. It hurts a lot."

Tatsuki thought for a moment before speaking.

"But Mr. Kafuku, can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them?”
― Haruki Murakami

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“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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