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"I couldn't figure it out. I glanced back over the house [audience] again. Individual faces moved into focus: Normals with gray hair, red hair, white skin, black skin. Normals with contorted faces stoning the personification of themselves. I couldn't figure it out. -- T.D.H" — Aug 31, 2026 01:22AM
"I couldn't figure it out. I glanced back over the house [audience] again. Individual faces moved into focus: Normals with gray hair, red hair, white skin, black skin. Normals with contorted faces stoning the personification of themselves. I couldn't figure it out. -- T.D.H" — Aug 31, 2026 01:22AM
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" The Portrait: The artist admonishes the student: "Be wary how you render the eyes, a demon lies within."" — Aug 03, 2026 04:18AM
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"The coachman came back, but at the moment he stopped in front of Swann, Swann did not say to him: "Did you find the lady?" but: "Remind me, tomorrow, to order more wood; I think our supply must be almost exhausted." [...] and would have gone on talking to him about supplies of wood in order to hide the emotion he felt and allow himself time to separate from his uneasiness and give himself up to his happiness. -- M.P." — Jun 04, 2026 05:19AM
"The coachman came back, but at the moment he stopped in front of Swann, Swann did not say to him: "Did you find the lady?" but: "Remind me, tomorrow, to order more wood; I think our supply must be almost exhausted." [...] and would have gone on talking to him about supplies of wood in order to hide the emotion he felt and allow himself time to separate from his uneasiness and give himself up to his happiness. -- M.P." — Jun 04, 2026 05:19AM
“For instance, supposing that the planet earth were not a sphere but a gigantic coffee table, how much difference in everyday life would that make?”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“He asked me several things, but I couldn't answer, indeed I didn't even understand his questions. So I said: "Perhaps you are sorry now that you invited me, so I'd better go," and I was about to get up. But he stretched his hand out over the table and pressed me down. "Stay," he said, "that was only a test. He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.”
― Parables and Paradoxes
― Parables and Paradoxes
“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
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“If I ever get reincarnated, it occurred to me, let me make certain I don't come back as a paperclip.”
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
― Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“We may come, touch and go, from atoms and ifs but we're presurely destined to be odd's without ends.”
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