Tim Pilon
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“There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― A Clash of Kings
― A Clash of Kings
“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
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