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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

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For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.

Stoner

by John Williams

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Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle, slightly different from one another but always built with the same pieces, though not in the same order.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: faith, human-nature, religion

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“Generally speaking, beliefs arise from an event or character that may or may not be authentic, and rapidly evolve into social movements that are conditioned and shaped by the political, economic and societal circumstances of the group that accepts them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“Nobody can really be convinced of something he or she doesn't need to believe in through some biological imperative.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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“Nothing makes us believe more than fear, the certainty of being threatened. When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimized, however questionable they may be. Our opponents, or simply our neighbors, stop sharing common ground with us and become our enemies. We stop being aggressors and become defenders. The envy, greed, or resentment that motivates us becomes sanctified, because we tell ourselves we're acting in self-defense. Evil, menace -- those are always the preserve of the other. The first step for believing passionately is fear. Fear of losing our identity, our life, our status, or our beliefs. Fear is the gunpowder and hatred the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

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