“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“I’m not much of a chess player, but there is an aspect of the game that I find fascinating. After a while, you can almost see lines of force between the pieces. Areas of danger where it is physically impossible to move pieces into. Clouds of possibility, forbidden zones.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“Being who you are for ever is the price you pay for immortality.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“Live on berries in a hollowed-out comet lit by artificial suns long enough, and you start to have delusions about achieving enlightenment.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“«Perhonen is not here anymore,» it says, with a voice made of wings and whispers.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“It feels like trying to juggle eight-side Rubik’s cubes while trying to solve them at the same time. And every time I drop one, God kills a billion kittens.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“Jinni and lost jannahs are less to him than dust.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“In the last hour, I have been offered immortality eight thousand times, the ship says. I hate negotiating with vasilevs.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“The Universe that the quantum gods made is cruel and random.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“True stories do not always end,’ Sumanguru”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got out with a box with a god in it. And a memory that said that you needed to go to Earth.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“There is no point in being upset if you are not prepared to do something about it.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
“But there is no death in the City of the Dead.”
― Hannu Rajaniemi, quote from The Fractal Prince
Hannu Rajaniemi
Born place: in Ylivieska, Finland
Born date March 9, 1978
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“Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.”
― Willa Cather, quote from Death Comes for the Archbishop
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”
― Rachel Hartman, quote from Seraphina
“I cannot really play. Either at piano or at life; never, never have I been able to. I have always been too hasty, too impatient; something always intervenes and breaks it up. But who really knows how to play, and if he does know, what good is it to him? Is the great dark less dark for that, are the unanswerable questions less inscrutable, does the pain of despair at eternal inadequacy burn less fiercely, and can life ever be explained and seized and ridden like a tamed horse or is it always a mighty sail that carries us in the storm and, when we try to seize it, sweep us into the deep? Sometimes there is a hole in me that seems to extend to the center of the earth. What could fill it? Yearning? Dispair? Happiness? What happiness? Fatigue? Resignation? Death? What am I alive for? Yes, for what am I alive?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, quote from The Black Obelisk
“Sometimes... sometimes keeping alive is too tiring," she whispered, wringing her hands. Before he knew what he was doing, he pressed his lips against her brow. "Don't ever say that. Ever.”
― Melina Marchetta, quote from Froi of the Exiles
“German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.”
― George Bernard Shaw, quote from Pygmalion
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