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Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.
“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
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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“It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans”
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
― The Log from the Sea of Cortez
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
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