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“There are no shortcuts. If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years to the task... experience is algorithmically incompressible.”
― The Lifecycle of Software Objects
― The Lifecycle of Software Objects
“You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself.”
― Acts of Desperation
― Acts of Desperation
“You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful.”
― Acts of Desperation
― Acts of Desperation
“I've seen what human beings can do-"
"You've seen what... but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning”
― The Sparrow
"You've seen what... but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning”
― The Sparrow
“If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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