“By the time you’re my age, you’ll realize that everything you once thought mattered so much turns out to mean very little.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old.…”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
“Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.…”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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