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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.” Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“just because we've been... dealt a certain hand... it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above — to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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