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“I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.”

“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”

“Auberson’s first impression of the man was of eight pounds of potatoes in a ten-pound sack.”

“You aren’t really jumping through time, that’s the illusion; what you’re actually doing is leaving one timestream and jumping to—maybe even creating—another. The second one is identical to the one you just left, including all of the changes you made in it—up to the instant of your appearance. At that moment, simply by the fact of your existence in it, the second timestream becomes a different timestream. You are the difference.”

““You could call it that,” Auberson sighed. It wouldn’t be correct, but you could call it that.”

“Now you see why I hate to leave my lab. It tires me out too much to have to do other people’s thinking for them.”

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"Shut out the evil love of the world, that you may be filled with the love of God. You are a vessel that was already full: you must pour away what you have, that you may take in what you have not."

— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

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"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

— Audrey Hepburn

Entertainment1929–1993

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"Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men — the tension of that agony was over now."

— Herman Melville

creative and professional writing1819–1891

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"Adam's temperament was the first command the Deity ever issued to a human being on this planet. And it was the only command Adam would never be able to disobey. It said, "Be weak, be water, be charact…"

— Mark Twain

Literature1835–1910

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