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The Luminaries
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"How silently the world revolves, when one is brooding, and alone." Jul 10, 2026 05:31PM

 
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Walter Pater
“Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is.

To such a tremulous wisp constantly reforming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down.”
Walter Pater, The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Christopher Buckley
“In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream.”
Christopher Buckley

Natsume Sōseki
“Knowing that it is the earth we tread, we learn to tread carefully, lest it be rent open. Realizing that it is the heavens that hang above us, we come to fear the echoing thunderbolt. The world demands that we battle with others for the sake of our own reputation, and so we undergo the sufferings bred of illusion. While we live in this world with its daily business, forced to walk the tightrope of profit and loss, true love is an empty thing, and the wealth before our eyes mere dust.”
Sōseki Natsume, The Three-Cornered World

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Galileo Galilei
“In the future, there will be opened a gateway and a road to a large and excellent science into which minds more piercing than mine shall penetrate to recesses still deeper.”
Galileo Galilei

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