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  1. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    Is it failure for morning to become afternoon?
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    The strata of sedimentary rock are like the pages of a book, each with a record of contemporary life written on it. Unfortunately, the record is far from complete.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom?"
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.
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  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.
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  7. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    What can i tell you about the choices we make? Fate reads like the polar opposite of decision, and so much of life reads like fate.
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  8. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all.Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love.I try not to burn up my world with rage.It is so hard."
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  9. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past.Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?
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  11. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.
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  12. Jeanette Winterson _ Weight: The Myth of Atlas and

    There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own."
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