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Finally reading this one! It was long pending on my list. Didn't realise what I was missing till I actually started this ... should have got to it sooner!
"How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
— Sep 10, 2017 08:26AM
"How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
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Nikita
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“... the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
— Jan 19, 2018 10:57PM
Nikita
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• ... the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.•
— Sep 12, 2017 12:45PM
Nikita
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•He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.•
— Sep 12, 2017 12:41PM
