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21 " He viewed our peaceful coexistence with the unknown as a testament to the capacities of the human mind. "
― Reif Larsen , I Am Radar
22 " Observation is precisely the problem. Observation, as we understand it, is the nemesis of understanding. We’re ibsessed with this act of witnessing - yet witnessing is an action that irrevocably affects the subject. As it turns out, we can only witness the witnessing. "
23 " Bohr knew, in the way that few great men do, exactly how much of the universe could never be understood at all. "
24 " I’ll tell you what it is: we are confined to consequence. We can survive the now only because we claim to know what comes next. We are terrified of the truth: that by saying ‘if this,’ we have already destroyed ‘then that. "
25 " He had learned everything there was to know about whom you must protect and whom you must reject, and such lessons can never be unlearned. "
26 " It was not uncommon for his father to toss out the phrase “Jebem ti supu od klinova Isusovih!” which translated roughly as “Fuck the soup made from the nails of Jesus’s crucifixion,” and not think twice about it, even if in English he was unfailingly polite. "
27 " Above all else, you took care of your own, primarily because you could not be sure about the slippery identity of your neighbor. "
28 " The talk of books quickened here pulse and dampened the divot just above her lip. "
29 " The distance between the world within the book and or own world must be exactly right - it cannot be too near or too far. That distance is what I savor. "
30 " Appearance alone does not dictate an individual’s reaction to ultraviolet radiation nor his or hers membership in any racial grouping... The clues to our composition, more often than not, lie beneath the surface. "
31 " As much as she might argue otherwise, his mother was a fragile woman. "
32 " The threat of her relapsing had created a strong gravitational field around their little family and was part of the reason he had never left home. He "
33 " When you can’t find something, it might as well not exist. "
34 " This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. "
35 " When asked, Charlene had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race. It was a convenient shorthand metaphor, thought, like all metaphors, it was not quite true. "
36 " And it was if she had experienced a dream in which she dreamed of a dream she had long ago. "
37 " It was never easy to be a keeper of books, but it was particularly tough during that turnover winter of ‘69, a hinge point when the world rubbed its eyes and realized all was not as it seemed. "
38 " If they are to achieve anything in the future, they must see what magnificence was possible in the past. "
39 " He had seen enough to know that in every death, someone suffered and someone triumphed, and often those two were the same person. "
40 " Rule #238: Don’t do it because you can. Do it because you must. "