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“Why did she [Madame Curie] seek to tame this mystery, which in the hands of others turned a multitude to ashes? Her work exploded with the violence of a thousand suns, but I must tell her that it was not her fault, the way they twisted her creation, tampered with her dreams.
"I will tell her.
"They said she was inhuman, heartless, but it is not so. She is here now. Weeping, she awaits me, She is carrying balm for our hands. [p, 56]”
― The Secrets of a Fire King
"I will tell her.
"They said she was inhuman, heartless, but it is not so. She is here now. Weeping, she awaits me, She is carrying balm for our hands. [p, 56]”
― The Secrets of a Fire King
“I look up, right into the Archgod of Chaos and Destruction’s bewildered eyes, gathering more of my magic. “Here’s a taste of consequences.”
― The Last Lumenian
― The Last Lumenian
“If I stress about a goal, I won't remember to find the way to get there.”
― The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
― The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team
“Adam offered her a heart-melting smile and a wink, then headed for the door. With his hand on the door, he paused and turned back.
Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
― Trouble on Main Street
Heidi’s eyes jumped up from his butt to his face.”
― Trouble on Main Street
“Sartre expresses the basic tenet of existentialism in this way: Existence precedes essence. In this statement he is taking existentia and essentia according to their metaphysical meaning, which from Plato's time on has said that essentia precedes existentia. Sartre reverses this statement. But the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement. With it he stays with metaphysics in oblivion of the truth of Being.”
― Basic Writings
― Basic Writings
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