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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
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“You measure life by how much you can laugh.”
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“a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life”
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“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”
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“The world is greater than that -- I smile
and I think of my hilarity as a covey
in flight from a house collapsing.
Lose yourself if you wish to find yourself; desire
so as not to have.”
― In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.
and I think of my hilarity as a covey
in flight from a house collapsing.
Lose yourself if you wish to find yourself; desire
so as not to have.”
― In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.
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