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Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.”
Sonja was more freakish, more wondrously confounding than the one-armed guard; rather than limbs she had, somehow, amputated expectations.
She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat.
“I hope your biology teacher was sent to the gulag,” she said.
How had civilization survived long enough to accumulate the knowledge contained in these books?
Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.
“I may be an idiot,” he said gravely, “but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown.
When he felt like a criminal, he reminded himself that a land without law is a land without crime.
“Why would I want to read what I’m living?”
