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"Percy: I'll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids' head into the toilets. It's nice that some things never change."
"I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced of why I must retire for the day."
"The day-to-day grind of adult life brings with it a tedium that weighs heavily on our powers of attention. The same experiences, at the same time and place, day in and day out, breed a familiarity that blunts our senses."
"Habits decide who you become permanently, what you do daily and what you have always."
"Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going."
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"Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books."
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."
"Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive, even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem of occupying space in the world and having a name people could call you by, being somebody they thought they could know."
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
"What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
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