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“Too much hate will burn a man to cinders, Chevalier.” “Oui. But at least he’ll die warm.”


“Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz

“But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a
story cannot dwell on what might have been.”
― The New York Trilogy
story cannot dwell on what might have been.”
― The New York Trilogy

“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
― This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― The Brooklyn Follies
― The Brooklyn Follies

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