“There is no such thing as perfection, only the relentless, thirsty matching of an organism to its environment.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Look at us! For us there are no partings, no pains, no sufferings; or if they come they are turned into pleasure. And death itself, which for you is the end of life, is for us merely its beginning,—the exchange of a lower for a higher happiness, a happiness less calm for one calmer and eternal.”
― Quo Vadis
― Quo Vadis
“Whoso does not play at dice will not lose property, but still people play at dice. There is in that a certain delight and destruction of the present.”
― Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero
― Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero
“Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
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