Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
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Douglas Coupland
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[ But]...
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Haruki Murakami
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.
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Marie Lu
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
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Gary Inbinder
Even things that are true can be proved.
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Oscar Wilde
More Quotes By Mark OConnell
The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself, the history of science was in many ways an almanac of highly unlikely victories.
These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings than I would to the pratfalls of a fellow human. I don’t imagine I would laugh at the spectacle of a toaster falling out of an SUV, or a...
When, some months later, Zoltan emailed me about his decision to run for president, I immediately called him. The first thing I asked was what his wife thought of the plan.“ Well, in a way, ” he said, “it was Lisa who gave me the...
This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.
This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.
