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“You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
― A New Earth
― A New Earth
“Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“The next day, William Lanney's much abused remains were carried in a coffin to the cemetery. The crowd of mourners was large. It included many of Lanney's shipmates, suggesting that the whaling profession in late-nineteenth-century Hobart was graced with a higher level of humanistic sensibility than the surgical profession.”
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
― The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
“The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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