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Tonka
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“These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Some 3.6 million years ago, in what is now northern Tanzania, a volcano erupted, the resulting cloud of ash covering the surrounding savannahs. In 1979, the paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found in that ash footprints - the footprints, she believes, of an early hominid, perhaps an ancestor of all the people on the Earth today. And 380,000 kilometers away, in a flat dry plain that humans have in a moment of optimism called the Sea of Tranquility, there is another footprint, left by the first human to walk another world. We have come far in 3.6 million years, and in 4.6 billion and in 15 billion.
For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
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For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”
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“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
― Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
― Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
“Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“Rusijo!Rusijo!Vidim te iz svoje čudesne,divne daljine,vidim te: sve je jadno,razbacano i neudobno u tebi;ne vesele niti plaše pogled na tvoja smiona čuda prirode okrunjena smionim čudima umjetnosti,gradovi u kojima se dižu visoki dvorci s mnogobrojnim prozorima urasli u stijene,slikovito drveće i bršljan urastao u kuće,usred vječitog šuma i vodene prašine slapova...Široko je,pusto i ravno sve u tebi;kao točke,kao oznake,neupadljivo strše usred ravnice tvoji niski gradovi;ništa neće čovjeka oduševiti ni očarati mu pogled.Ali koja me to nepojmljiva,tajna sila vuče tebi?Zašto mi se neprekidno odjekuje i razliježe se u ušima tvoja čeznutljiva pjesma što se ori u tebi uzduž i poprijeko,od jednog mora do drugog? Što je unjoj,u toj pjesmi? Što me to u njoj zove,i jeca,i dira samo u srce?Koji me to zvuci bolno miluju,i u dušu mi prodiru,i viju mi se oko srca?Rusijo!Što hoćeš od mene?Kakva se to nedokučiva veza krije među nama?Što me tako gledaš,i zašto je sve u tebi uprlo oči pune nade u mene...Neće li se baš ovdje u tebi roditi beskrajna misao kad tebi samoj nema kraja?Oh,kakva je blisatva,čudesna ta daljina o kojoj svijet ništa ne zna!Rusijo!...”
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