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I go to seek a Great Perhaps.
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It’s just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.’ ‘Right, it’s primarily his hotness,’ I said. ‘It can be sort of blinding,’ he said. ‘It actually did blind our friend Isaac,’ I said. ‘Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?’ ‘You cannot.’ ‘It is my burden, this beautiful face.’ ‘Not to mention your body.’ ‘Seriously, don’t even…
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I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?
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It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
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Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like…
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It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
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Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.
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That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.
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What is an “instant” death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour.…
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I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.
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You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.
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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.
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The world is not a wish-granting factory.
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