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"They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
"I am alive because you want me to."
"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."
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"Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive."
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