Mitchell: Cloud Atlas

Summary: Cloud Atlas by Mitchell (David Fickling Books (2004)). (Stub — expand from highlights.)

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Last updated: 2026-05-07

Quotes

Consciousness and Interconnectedness

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” (p. 509)

Power and Society

“The weak are meat, and the strong do eat. This is the only law that has ever truly governed the world.” (p. 452)

Identity

“We do not stay the same person from birth to death. We are a series of selves, each one born from the ruins of the last.” (p. 187)