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I found this idea too intense to think about, like the glare of a bare lightbulb.
“There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter -- if not a paragraph or proper noun -- in the history of philosophy.”
― Ficciones
― Ficciones
“So the winter passed, till lambing season was on them, and the work got very heavy for a while as the days lengthened and grew bright. Then the swallows came from the isles under the sun, from the South Reach, where the star Gobardon shines in the constellation of Ending; but all the swallows’ talk with one another was about beginning.”
― Tehanu
― Tehanu
“I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“Things take the time they take.
Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”
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Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?”
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