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Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction, and now was such a time.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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It is not our memories but the person we have become because of those past experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not the person we were in the past.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo

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Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Don DeLillo, White Noise

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What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Don Delillo, White Noise

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People who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book 

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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This was the reason Americans shot each other so often: It was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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...beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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...When we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever.

Oliver Sacks, Gratitude

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It is the curse of age, that all things are reflections of other things.

Neil Gaiman, “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains” (Trigger Warning)

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance