"Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals."
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"I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five."
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"I think I'll stay alive here a bit longer, and see with my own eyes what's going to happen. I can still die after that - it won't be too late. Probably."
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"I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities."
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"I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it."
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"Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end."
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"What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs."
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"People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned."
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"Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions."
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"It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book."
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"You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first."
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"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."
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"In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news."
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"That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more."
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"I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling."
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"What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it."
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"If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it."
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"Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere."
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"It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe."
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"Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!"
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