"But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?"

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Source : Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Acceptance: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

Jeff VanderMeer

#What If Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Invisible Quotes

“I like shopping from the comfort of my bed whilst my husband is asleep beside me.”
“If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?”
“I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.”
“I think just about everybody ought to get a second chance and I'd like to see it worked out, because he (Pete Rose) brought a lot of joy to the game, and he gave a lot of joy to people, and he's paid a price - God knows, he's paid a price.”
“One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.”
“In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated”
“A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching”
“Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.”

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