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“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: art, hope, literature, memory, poetry

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: optimism

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“The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

tags: aliens, determinism, free-will, time

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