"The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade."

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“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

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"I had had a good life. A somewhat shorter one than I had anticipated, but I had had the money, I had had the girls, and nobody told me what to do. Is there, really, anything else? Are you sure?"

— Algis Budrys

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"The classification of biodiversity is the job of taxonomists who, born as packrats and inspired by a compulsion to explore and collect the world's biological riches, will risk life and limb to solve t…"

— Hugh Iltis

Science1925–2016

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"I think I have spoken enough to you about serious things; which is why I speak of something to which I attribute great value, still too little appreciated — gaiety. It is gaiety, basically, that allow…"

— Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Entertainment1889–1943

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"Only one who understood the message of this book could have the hot and bitter tears with which to finish it. Xueqin, having run out of tears, departed this life on New Year's Eve of the year ren-wu l…"

— Zhiyanzhai

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