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History had proven the library to be endlessly fascinating as a subject, either because the obsession with what it might have contained was bound only by the imagination or because humanity longs for things most ardently as a collective.
Many people incorrectly assume time to be a steady incline, a measured arc of growth and progress, but when history is written by the victors the narrative can often misrepresent that shape.
Intelligence is, in some senses, also an illness—genius is frequently a side effect of mania.
To want neither to live nor to die, but to never exist. Impossible to fight.
