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#1

“And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

#4

“Distance reminds us that there's a lot more to the universe than just people. It reminds us that there are mental spaces inside our skulls as enormous as the spaces out there.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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#4

“He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

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#5

“We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat —and the boat is perpetually sinking.”
― Aldous Huxley, Island

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#6

“All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

tags: beginnings, future, hope

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#8

“He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

9 likes

#10

“As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

tags: depravity, evolution

16 likes

#11

“any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

15 likes

#13

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

2820 likes

#15

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: friends, friendship

954 likes

#17

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: art, hunger, paris, starving

827 likes

#19

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: humor

602 likes

#21

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: silence

361 likes

#23

“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: contrarian

194 likes

#25

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

164 likes

#27

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: death, love, memories

116 likes

#29

“We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

tags: belief, truth

106 likes

#31

“I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

102 likes

#33

“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

tags: life, the-angel-s-game, zafon

78 likes

#35

“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

77 likes

#37

“May I offer you something? A small glass of cyanide?”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

68 likes

#39

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: distance, life, loneliness, qotd, sense-of-wonder, universe

6860 likes

#41

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: extraterrestrials, humor, intelligent-life, life, science, universe

4061 likes

#43

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: science, science-fiction

696 likes

#45

“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence

434 likes

#47

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: astrology, attributed-no-source, humor, skepticism

424 likes

#49

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: technology, wisdom

371 likes

#51

“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

216 likes

#53

“It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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#55

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: future, optimism

156 likes