"The world is a navy in an empty ocean."

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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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#nature

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— John Ruskin

Art1819–1900

#nature

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— John Gray (philosopher)

Philosophy1948

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— Olaf Stapledon

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