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“I turn away from him and step into the vastness of New Crobuzon, this towering edifice of architecture and history, this complexitude of money and slum, this profane steam-powered god. I turn and walk into the city my home, not bird or garuda, not miserable crossbreed.
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man.”
― Perdido Street Station
I turn and walk into my home, the city, a man.”
― Perdido Street Station

“[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

“Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!”
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
― Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

“No, no - I think about thinking”
― I Am a Strange Loop
― I Am a Strange Loop

“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.”
― I Am a Strange Loop
― I Am a Strange Loop

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