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“Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.

—The Creation of Éa”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].”
― Nick Bostrom