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“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

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Charles Yu
Charles Yu

Charles Yu, born in 1976, is a talented writer whose works span across science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. His unique imagination and profound thematic explorations have earned him widespread acclaim from readers and critics alike. more

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