“As Dante was watching me search the sky through the lens of a telescope, he whispered, "Someday, I'm going to discover all the secrets of the universe."
That made me smile. "What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?"
"I'll know what to do with them," he said. "Maybe change the world."
I believed him.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
That made me smile. "What are you going to do with all those secrets, Dante?"
"I'll know what to do with them," he said. "Maybe change the world."
I believed him.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“They leaned towards him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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