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“What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!”
― Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

“Maxim 70:
Failure is not an option. It is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”
― Howard Tayler

“When I assumed this great task I laid hold of eternity at the same time. I lift my head boldly to the threatening stony heights, to the roaring cataract, to the crashing clouds in their fire-red sea. […] ‘I defy your power! Rain everything down upon me! You earth, and you, heaven, mingle all of your elements in wild tumult. Foam and roar, and in savage combat pulverize the last dust mote of that body which I call my own. Along with its own unyielding project, my will shall hover boldly and indifferently above the wreckage of the universe. For I have seized my vocation, and it is more permanent than you.”
― J.G. Fichte

“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven