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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?

Alan Lightman

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Experience Irrational Lead New Rational Thought
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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During Important Listen Ourselves Thing Time
At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Decision Every Fate Infinity Point World
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor
My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Another Finish Good Novel Second Wish Year
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Happy Joy One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Achievement Age Fact Flood Great Image Megabit Planet So Throughout
In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Cell Clamp Head Phone Restaurant Walk
They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Butterfly Case Contentment Eternity Even Fix Frozen
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Answer Human Being might Need Question Someday Well

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