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There was no way she could know, but Prisoner Zero asked anyway because he was talking to himself; which was all anyone ever did, it seemed to him, talk to themselves while half meanings and misunderstandings fed into the minds of those who thought they were listening.

— Jon Courtenay Grimwood Stamping Butterflies (2004)

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Apparently this was a design flaw in the unaugmented human brain, a lagging of consciousness behind intent.

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The thought came and went, more wish than thought. Maria wasn’t good at considering her own emotions. Most of the time the girl found it hard to believe that what she felt might matter.

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He had been fighting with himself longer than he could remember and was still not sure who was winning.

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The fifty-third Chuang Tzu wore the very first on his cloak as a diamond buckle. Every emperor became a diamond eventually. It was one of the few advantages of living as a carbon-based life form.

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