"Unliving things have no passions, and no memory: mere matter is the amnesia of the universe."

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“Sometimes the best in people comes out during emergencies. Sometimes not.”

“Yes, I prayed. Why not? The advantage of being an agnostic over being an atheist is that I always had the possibility of being wrong, and could still entertain the hope that the universe was better organized than it appeared to be.”

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“Ripples on a pond cannot touch a bird hovering above it.”

“Whatever dwelt among the stars had nothing to do with earthly concerns. I wonder if you will understand me if I said, staring at the indifference of the cold heavens, that I never felt less religious than in that moment, but staring at their majesty, the grandeur, I never felt more. Cruel Saturn’s created world was worthy of awe.”

“Comedy is easy. Intrigue is hard.”

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