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“Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“Because he was beginning to fear that man belongs neither in civilization nor nature—because we are aberrations between two states of being.”
― Hold the Dark
― Hold the Dark
“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“It’s just that sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“So how bad is the world?
How bad. The world's truth constitutes a /vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer who ever walked it. Once you accept that then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy but a promise. So allow me in turn to ask you this question: When we and all our works are gone together with every memory of them and every machine in which such memory could be encoded and stored and the Earth is not even a cinder, for whom then will this be a tragedy? Where would such a being be found? And by whom?
p.377”
― The Passenger
How bad. The world's truth constitutes a /vision so terrifying as to beggar the prophecies of the bleakest seer who ever walked it. Once you accept that then the idea that all of this will one day be ground to powder and blown into the void becomes not a prophecy but a promise. So allow me in turn to ask you this question: When we and all our works are gone together with every memory of them and every machine in which such memory could be encoded and stored and the Earth is not even a cinder, for whom then will this be a tragedy? Where would such a being be found? And by whom?
p.377”
― The Passenger
James’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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121 books
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