Quotes I Found

Whenever I come across a great sentence or two that someone has written or said, I put it here.

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RIP Thich Nhat Hanh

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Found on an Aesop skincare bag given to me by the kind worker who gave me samples when I walked in to take a picture of their super cool ceiling. Talk about roving about.

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“This nagging sense of incompletion, like a puzzle piece misplaced, had to be the immeasurable quality Celia was talking about, its shape and size different for everyone but its existence—this absence—uniting them. All of them.”

—From The Ones We’re Meant To Find, by Joan He.

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“No one enters this world by choice. If we’re lucky, we can choose how we leave.”

—from The Ones We’re Meant To Find, by Joan He

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“…grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.”

—from the short story ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,’ within Exhalation by Ted Chiang

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“Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old…”

—The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

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“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean…”

—The Three-Body Problem, Chapter 2, Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

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“Art is simply politics’ sweeter tongue.”

—from Foundation

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“Hateful is the dark blue sky

Vaulted o’er the dark blue sea.

Death is the end of life; ah, why

Should life all labor be?”

—Alfred Lord Tennyson, excerpt from The Lotos-eaters

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“What keeps me sane is this: forget about right or wrong. Make people think deeply.”

—Tim Denning

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“There are no monsters. The monster is us.”

—Ken Liu, ‘The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary’

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“I grew up in the shoes they told me I could fill.

Shoes that were not made for running up that hill.

And I need to run up that hill.”

—Fiona Apple, ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’

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“I have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that I am and then sink back into the ocean.”

—Fiona Apple, ‘Container’

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“Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space.”

—James Gleick

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“Normal is being phased out.”

-This American Life, ep. 742, Act one

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“The shortest pencil is better than the longest memory.”

—Nestor Andaya, told to me by his daughter, Athena Andaya