“Cupertino has a population of 60,000. Is it, then, a city like Siena in the Middle Ages when it helped to create the modern banking system? Should it be regarded as less a city than the contemporary version of a remote monastery populated by devout adepts exploring all the possible names of God?”
― The Language of Cities
― The Language of Cities
“sorry I didn't text you back for a month. darkness took me. and I strayed out of thought and time. stars wheeled overhead, and every day was as long as the life age of the earth. but I'm good now. how are you?”
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“Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly. The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. There is the music of Heaven in all things. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity.”
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“He sensed the future looking back at him”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
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