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by Robin Harford · updated 3mo ago
quotes
by Robin Harford · updated 3mo ago
There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles.
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Te
Robin Harford added 3mo ago
There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. ~ Olive
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There are no ordinary people.
You have never talked to a mere mortal.
C. S. Lewis
Robin Harford added 3mo ago
It seems that we are most busy when we do not do the one thing we ought to do; most greedy when we cannot have the one thing we really want; most hurried when we can never arrive; most self-righteous when irrevocably in the wrong.
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