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Daniela
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I understood that I had been given my atoms, the ones that made up my heart and toenails and kidneys and brain, on a kind of universal loan program. The time would come when I would have to give the atoms back, and I didn’t want to attempt
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“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the book, this story ... ? Tell me what it Means.
But that is not my job, honey. That's your job.”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
But that is not my job, honey. That's your job.”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“None of this is spare time. I can’t spare it.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“I have had a lot to put up with," she said, looking meaningfully at me. "I know the Bible tells us to turn the other cheek but there are only so many cheeks in a day.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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