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10 Orange highlight | Location: 594 great men of history, and Tilly, but not possessions, governments, nor the practical necessities of everyday life. Orange highlight | Location: 1,279 The chameleon, apparently, had been entrusted by God with an important message for the first man, who was living somewhere near Mount Kenya. Orange highlight | Location: 1,400 I cherished my baby...

29 Yellow highlight | Page: 27 anger. His diapers were about to fall off. “Mine!” he said in a high, ringing voice. “Mine sun!” “It is not yours,” the one-eyed woman said with the mildness of utter certainty. “Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you...

12 Yellow highlight | Location: 965 one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?” “That we shall die.” “Yes. There’s really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer. . . . The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” Yellow highlight |...

2 Yellow highlight | Page: 88 Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It’s just easier to handle those with emotions. Yellow highlight | Page: 247 Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless...