

“I have pain in my hip and long walks are a thing of the past but I'm neither morbid nor senile. I'm not obsessed by death, but I'm at an age when I have to accept that my time is about up. You want to close the accounts and take care of unfinished business.”
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“I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.”
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
― The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

“Когда всю жизнь живешь в яме, — сказал он, — вылезти можешь только вверх.”
― Holes
― Holes

“I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down”
― Charlotte’s Web
― Charlotte’s Web

“Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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