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“I do not step shyly back from your property, but look upon it always as my property, in which I respect nothing. Pray do the like with what you call my property!”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and His Own: Max Stirner's Provocative Exploration of Individualism and Self-Interest

“The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.”
― Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

“Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything.”
― Greg Egan, Diaspora

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan