Exhalation
Kindle Highlights: Exhalation: Stories
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If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons. — location: 497 ^ref-32960
Charles Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine into a — location: 2412 ^ref-44279
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. — location: 2887 ^ref-25125
And I think I’ve found the real benefit of digital memory. The point is not to prove you were right; the point is to admit you were wrong. — location: 3156 ^ref-54936
It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force. — location: 3232 ^ref-2929
Then I asked, wouldn’t they feel lost, like a castaway adrift on an ocean of time? The only sane response would be despair. — location: 3323 ^ref-36088
I believe the primordial humans made a choice. They found themselves in a world full of possibilities but with no guidance as to what to do. — location: 3695 ^ref-46109