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“We study the realm of consciousness because we understand that to decide something, to weigh a cost and accept its consequences, is to forcibly alter the world in some tangible way. That is magic as true and as real as any other.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“Trouble doesn't give signs like rain, so we must always be ready for it.”
― Ciannon Smart

“All the knowledge the world possessed existed at their fingertips, and all they had to do in return was continue to nurture it, to make it grow.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“The trouble with knowledge, the idiosyncrasy of its particular addiction, was that it was not the same as other types of vice. Because knowledge was not chemical, was not physical or hormonal or easily within reach, someone given a taste of omniscience could never be satisfied by the contents of a bare reality without it”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six