“One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Fantasy. Lunacy.
All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
― Cloud Atlas
All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
― Cloud Atlas
“Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency. It happens to be timeless time. I know that I am listening to a rhythm which has been just the same for millions of years, and it takes me out of a world of relentlessly ticking clocks. Clocks for some reason or other always seem to be marching, and, as with armies, marching is never to anything but doom. But in the motion of waves there is no marching rhythm. It harmonizes with our very breathing. It does not count our days. Its pulse is not in the stingy spirit of measuring, of marking out how much still remains. It is the breathing of eternity, like the God Brahma of Indian mythology inhaling and exhaling, manifesting and dissolving the worlds, forever. As a mere conception this might sound appallingly monotonous, until you come to listen to the breaking and washing of waves.”
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