Matt Haig - The Humans (2013)

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Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

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If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

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The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

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If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

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Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

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There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

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Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

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Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

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Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

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And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

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Kissing is what humans do when words have reached a place they can't escape from.

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