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    William Blake
    “The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
    ― William Blake, All Religions Are One
    tags: philosophy, religion, science
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    William Blake
    “Did he who made the lamb make thee?”
    ― William Blake, The Tyger
    tags: aggression, christianity, god, innocence, religion, william-blake
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    Jeff Noon
    “Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. ”
    ― Jeff Noon, Vurt
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    Jeff Noon
    “There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there.”
    ― Jeff Noon, Vurt
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    William Gibson
    “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
    ― William Gibson, Neuromancer
    tags: first-lines
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
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    Alan Moore
    “Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: rorschach
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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: dread
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
    tags: love
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    Kobayashi Issa
    “What a strange thing!
    to be alive
    beneath cherry blossoms.”
    ― Kobayashi Issa, Poems
    tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
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    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: books, obsession
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    John Green
    “I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
    tags: colonel
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: depression, pain
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: ayn-rand, individualism, libertarianism, objectivism, selfishness
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  • #20
    “I will leave with your head in a bag. I already have the bag.”
    ― Dexter Morgan
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    “I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”
    ― Archilochus of Paros
    tags: cruelty, self-defense, war
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  • #22
    “The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh (Vorlon on Babylon 5)”
    ― Straczynski J. Michael
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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  • #24
    “I really wanted to talk to her.
    I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
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  • #25
    “Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: bees, geometry, nature, nature-s-grandeur
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    Umberto Eco
    “I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her "I love you madly", because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution. He can say "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly". At this point, having avoided false innocence, having said clearly it is no longer possible to talk innocently, he will nevertheless say what he wanted to say to the woman: that he loves her in an age of lost innocence.”
    ― Umberto Eco
    tags: love, post-modernism, postmodern
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    Shunryu Suzuki
    “Now it is raining, but we don't know what will happen in the next moment. By the time we go out it may be a beautiful day, or a stormy day. Since we don't know, let's appreciate the sound of the rain now.”
    ― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
    tags: believing-in-nothing
    28 likes



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