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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“If asked, any third-culture kid will tell you that shape-shifting — rousing one of the many selves stacked within you to best suit the place you’re in — becomes a necessary survival skill, a sort of feigned fitting in that allows you to relate something of yourself to nearly everyone you meet."“When you grow up this way, there is a feeling of being lost, but to be lost is also to be open. It reminds us of our empathy, and of what we share if we were only to try and find it.”
― Luca Guadagnino

“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973