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“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.”
― Niels Bohr

“Sometimes the heart endures all grief because it seeks joy at the start.”
― Lyn Coffin, The Knight in the Panther's Skin

“The universe, then, is God, of whom the popular gods are manifestations; while legends and myths are allegorical. The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. The divine ruling principle makes all things work together for good, but for the good of the whole. The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule man.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.”
― Saul Bellow