Linus

“We must also be capable of thinking paradoxically. The American Revolution succeeded because it was not really a revolution.”
― Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

“Leonov’s drawing, simple, straightforward, even childlike, is overwhelmingly the most beautiful and moving depiction of an orbital sunrise I’ve ever seen. Precisely because it is not photo-realistic.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“And even if these scenes of our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that passed from them into us could not rise again. We might be amongst them and move in them; we might remember and love them and be stirred by the sight of them. But it would like gazing at the photograph of a dead comrade; those are his features, it is his face, and the days we spent together take on a mournful life in the memory; but the man himself it is not.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World