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“While his body rearranged itself, Lewis could do nothing but helplessly bear witness to the process.”

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Book:Shark Heart

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“An incessant desire for fish became louder than all the things Lewis treasured: the heartbeat of language, the idea of living in a tree, the universal within the poetic, and his soft way of loving her.”

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Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“At last, he witnessed Wren, his assiduous, loving partner, see him not for what he was but for what he had become. Lewis's nightmares were now in full bloom. His wife loved him, but she was also terrified of him.”

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Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change.”

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”

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Book:On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

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“Grapes unripe, ripened, raisined: all changes, not into nonexistence, but into not-yet existence.”

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Book:Meditations

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“She had thought: why suddenly does happiness descend, out of nowhere, like an archangel, out of a day that on the face of it is like any other? How can it be that life is quite unexceptional, and then all of a sudden it is not: it becomes a marvel?”

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Book:Perfect Happiness

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“It's easy to want change, but far more difficult to find ways to achieve it. And impossible to achieve it when those in power want the status quo, which is why I dream no further than finding a way to extract myself from these circumstances.”

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Book:The Inadequate Heir

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“There are some trajectories you cannot change, no matter what you do.”

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Book:Mad Honey

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“It’s the Leidensdruck concept. The literal translation is ‘the pressure of suffering’. What the concept suggests is that the suffering inherent in not acting must exceed the suffering one expects to experience if one acts. That the ‘Leidensdruck’, the pressure has to be high enough to become the impetus for moving forward, for change.”

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Book:A Whisper of Solace

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“Wild winds never last all morning and fierce rains never last all day. Who conjures such things if not heaven and earth, and if heaven and earth can't make things last, why should we humans try? Verse 23 (Hinton translation)”

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Book:Tao Te Ching

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