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There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. -- Claire North
Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away from the kinship of men. -- Claire North
As a young man, I used to sport a rather ragged beard [ ... ]; it doesn't suit and in its untended state I can often come to look like a set of sensory organs lost in a raspberry bush. -- Claire North
Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-180, author of Meditations. Quoth said emperor: It is not death a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. And also: You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength. -- Claire North
The rituals you make, the devotions you perform, they are what binds you to yourself. If you do not have them, if you have not found them within you, you are nothing, and the desert is all. I'm -- Claire North
When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence. -- Claire North
The roads weren't much to speak of, and the car's suspension had been welded in by a stonemason resentful of his change in career. -- Claire North
What is the point of you?
The world is ending.
Now it's up to you. -- Claire North
Too many voices all at once on the internet, screaming, just all the time screaming, sometimes it's hard to be heard. Sometimes I think that the world is full of screaming. -- Claire North
Levity and sincerity are not antonyms. We take pleasure in playing chess, but that does not mean we make wasteful moves. You -- Claire North
It is perhaps the simplicity of his affection, the patience of his understanding and loyalty that makes him too easy to love, for his love is taken for granted by many, who give back nothing in return. -- Claire North
My ma was all of them at some time, and what she learned is that the best way to talk to God is by yourself. -- Claire North
I have no time for boiled sausages, or boiled vegetables of any nature really, and cannot for the life of me comprehend why anyone would still insist on serving dishes whose whole cooking process consisted of exposure to water, to freely invited guests. -- Claire North
She smiled and understood my meaning without it needing to be said. She leaned in close and murmured in my ear, 'The world is ending, as it always must. But the end of the world is getting faster. -- Claire North
I hate marmalade." "I like it," I retorted. "I could eat pots of the stuff." He straightened a little, turned to fully examine me. "Are you ... threatening me with breakfast condiments? -- Claire North
What is the point of me?
Either to change a world-many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth-or nothing at all. -- Claire North
Everyone loves a Canadian. -- Claire North
For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die. -- Claire North
Consequences are only for the ones who stay behind. -- Claire North
Perhaps, I suggested, the fate of the universe could briefly take second place to the thorny issue of graduating with honours?
He blew loudly between his lips, a liquid sound of contempt. "That," he exclaimed, "is precisely what's wrong with academics. -- Claire North
Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all. -- Claire North
There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend. -- Claire North
You know why the experts don't have an easy answer? Because a fucking expert's the guy who knows how complicated the fucking questions are. -- Claire North
Complexity should be your excuse for inaction. -- Claire North
Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity. -- Claire North
I do not think a pilgrimage is a proper pilgrimage if you are also using it as an excuse to visit your favourite aunt, or buy silk cheaply to re-sell," she murmured sombrely. "That's just business dressed up in orange robes. -- Claire North
Your face is your fortune! Don't spend it all at once! -- Claire North
Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine. -- Claire North
What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples... -- Claire North
Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means. -- Claire North
Blackmail is surprisingly difficult to pull off. -- Claire North
It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. -- Claire North
only ice against which they can whisper, and who has any joy in scheming against winter herself? All -- Claire North
They are ...
in their own, unspectacular way, to which no ballads are written or songs sung, in a domestic, daily, life-being-lived way,
... happy -- Claire North
He had a Kalashnikov, the universal weapon of all budget warriors, -- Claire North
After a night of drinking, she would be a pale, starling-sized creature, but now, in this place, she is moonlight in heels. -- Claire North
Reason is dead." Death shrugged. "Was -- Claire North
I hate LA. Endless straight lines from nowhere particular to nothing much especially. Even -- Claire North
Always so very courteous. Lose courtesy, and you lose control; lose control and you lose yourself. -- Claire North
Wow, that is so deep.'
He meant it, of course.
'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'
I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away. -- Claire North
All men want to be someone else. It's what makes them do greater things with their lives. With the lives they can live. -- Claire North
Are you God, Dr August? Are you the only living creature that matters? Do you think, because you remember it, that your pain is bigger and more important? Do you think, because you experience it, that your life is the only life that gets counted? -- Claire North
What if thought is not free? What if memory is a prison, society a lie? Sometimes I look around and all I hear is screaming, screaming, screaming - what if you are the enlightened one? -- Claire North
We are no more and no less than minds, and it is human for the mind to be imperfect and to forget. -- Claire North
The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your eyes sharp to those few souls who stagger by, daring them to believe that you are not, in fact, more frightening than they are. -- Claire North
When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left. -- Claire North
Death, as has been established, holds little fear - it is but the flesh. The mind is the source of what we are, and it was the mind that they were determined to destroy. -- Claire North
Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express. -- Claire North
I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died. -- Claire North
In the land of the free you are free to say whatever you want, regardless of whether you have anything to say -- Claire North
For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore. -- Claire North
Luck is sometimes merciful. The Game never is. -- Claire North
You should learn to live a little, rough it out-I'm telling you, there's no greater high. -- Claire North
Time is not wisdom; wisdom is not intellect. I am still capable of being overwhelmed; he overwhelmed me. May -- Claire North
The trick with a truly successful intimidation is not to rely on volume or obscenity, but to cultivate that quiet certainty which informs any listener that your people will do the shouting for you, should the moment come. -- Claire North
Insecurity is often the mother of aggression. -- Claire North
Death flies because it is the modern way of things but doesn't particularly enjoy it, except for occasionally, when he rides up front with the pilot. -- Claire North
You must choose the life you live at the time you live it. -- Claire North
When we die it is as if the world resets, and only memory remains as evidence of the deeds we have done, no more and no less. -- Claire North
Tell me, in a world where wealth is power, and power is the only freedom, what would desperate men not do to be heard?" "Civil -- Claire North
I was six years old. I was seven hundred and fifty. I was being hunted. -- Claire North
In the end, he turned the radio on, and fell asleep to the sounds of either country or Western - he could never work out which was which. -- Claire North
How the fuck do I know that my better is anything more than the great big fat lie we tell ourselves to justify the slow fat nothing of our days. -- Claire North
I just want to be myself,' she murmured.
'But is that good enough?' Leena mused, 'Or is it just selfish? -- Claire North
I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now. -- Claire North
People are just people, doing people things. Sometimes they're stupid, and sometimes they're desperate, and a lot of the time it's just bad luck. Don't get your knickers in a twist over people. -- Claire North
They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect. -- Claire North
People always find difficult truths harder than easy lies. -- Claire North
Knowledge is not a substitute for ingenuity, merely an accelerant. -- Claire North
Truth: sometimes a murderer cannot be found. Truth: sometimes your children are taken and you are left behind. Truth: poverty is a prison. Truth: disease and age come to us all. -- Claire North
You are an aspect of the first breath that made the universe, your body is made of the dust of bodies that have gone before, and when you die, your body and your deeds give life. -- Claire North
There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost. -- Claire North
It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance. -- Claire North
But there is another question, more important, which is what is the first game that I was ever played in. That game began, I think, long before I ever competed for the higher league, and though I have not yet seen its shape, its battle is still ongoing. -- Claire North
If Pietrok-111 was a one-horse town, Pietrok-112 was the glue factory where that horse went to die. -- Claire North
I locked my smile in the attack position, -- Claire North
The world is boiled down to aphorisms and fairy tales. -- Claire North
He who is silent is seen to consent. -- Claire North
There was no moment of life, no waking from a darkness to find myself cured in that place. Rather there was slow shuffling towards comprehension, a few hours of recollection follow by a sleep, followed by a waking which stayed awake a little longer. -- Claire North
Nothing is ever quite enough. No matter who you are, there's always something more to be had, which could be yours if only you were someone else. -- Claire North
To regret your soul is to regret your past. -- Claire North
Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake? -- Claire North
Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break. -- Claire North
We all die. We don't have to live our lives fearing it. -- Claire North
God, but he lied beautifully; it was a masterclass. If I hadn't been concentrating so hard on my own deceit, I would have stood up and applauded. -- Claire North
The coin turns; where it falls, nobody knows.
The coin turns, empires rise and empires fall, men live and men die, babies scream and dead men sigh; the world changes but people are always and are never the same. -- Claire North
My first life, for all it lacked any real direction, had about it a kind of happiness, if ignorance is innocence, and loneliness is a separation of care. -- Claire North
Series of cysts on his kidneys and liver which induced the septicaemia -- Claire North
True fear is the fear of doubt; it is the mind that will not sleep, the open space at your back where the murderer stands with the axe. It is the gasp of a shadow passed whose cause you cannot see, the laughter of a stranger whose laugh, you know, laughs at you. -- Claire North
There is a black pit in the bottom of my soul that has no limit to its falling. -- Claire North
When you are alone, even the quiet is full of monsters -- Claire North
The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it. -- Claire North