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“In his dreams now, the sky is deep blue with just a twinge of light. He stares from the water up at the cliff far above him. He can see the silhouette of someone peering down at him from the top … can see the way the person leans far over the edge to stare—farther than any human could, yet keeps leaning at a more severe angle, pebbles dislodged and peppering the water around him. While he lies in wait, there, at the bottom of the cliff, swimming vast and unknowable among the other monsters. Waiting in the darkness for the soundless fall, without splash or ripple.”
― The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation / Authority / Acceptance
― The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation / Authority / Acceptance
“When I have laid bait for deer,
I don’t shoot at the first doe that comes to sniff,
but wait until the whole herd has gathered round. Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898”
― The 48 Laws of Power
I don’t shoot at the first doe that comes to sniff,
but wait until the whole herd has gathered round. Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898”
― The 48 Laws of Power
“most people just shrugged. “I haven’t breathed out of my nose in a decade,” said a friend who had suffered allergies most of his life.”
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
― Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
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