The Dream Of Perpetual Motion Quotes

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It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

I ask you to kill my father for the crime of bringing me into existence.

We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting.