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"Okay, I get it—there were people who went West," he retorted. "Toward the setting sun, which makes you imagine the future. And the East is where the sun crawls up over the horizon, so some people think of it as the past. But can't you also think of traveling toward the East as trying to reach a memory? That's what we want to do, so we'll keep on going, no matter what."
— Nov 10, 2025 08:06AM
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"The relationship between books and boats" he went on confidently, "isn't as simple as you think. People who write books sense that a crisis is coming. They know that any civilization could sink into the sea. So," he concluded dramatically, "all libraries are boats."
— Nov 11, 2025 08:09AM
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“Towns are made from stone and brick, so they don't vanish so easily. Countries, on the other hand, are only promises, recorded on documents—in other words, they're made of paper.”
— Nov 10, 2025 07:58AM
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“If a journey goes on long enough, traveling itself becomes the destination. And when that happens, you don't need to be in a hurry anymore, so anything goes, and you start to enjoy having your past mixed in with the present. The past stops being something you have to cut off, throw away. What I'm feeling now is something like that.”
— Nov 10, 2025 07:13AM
