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“The truth. There isn’t any. All we’ve managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn’t got any, and all we know about God is that we don’t know anything. So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow.

We save those we can.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“At the end of your career you’re trying to find a point to it all, and at the start of it you’re looking for a purpose.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!”
― Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

“Money may not buy happiness but it does buy choice.”
― Dharshini David, The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works

“it would be a very good thing if people were taught how to speak. Language is the noblest instrument we have, either for the revealing or the concealing of thought; talk itself is a sort of spiritualized action; and conversation is one of the loveliest of the arts. a”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Every year his world felt like it got a little smaller. Maybe that was just the way things went as people aged.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“Sometimes there’s no way to win. The only thing you can do is manage your losses.”
― Vince Flynn, Oath of Loyalty

“It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”
― POLLAN MICHAEL, Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library