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“But he forced himself on you,” she fumed, “how can you think it was your fault?” “But the consequences…” Ursula murmured. Sylvie blamed her entirely, of course. “You’ve thrown away your virtue, your character, everyone’s good opinion of ...more
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Lawrence M. Krauss
“In our normal experience, it is time and space that are absolute, while speed is a relative thing: how fast something is perceived to be moving depends upon how fast you yourself are moving. But as one approaches light speed, it is speed that becomes an absolute quantity, and therefore space and time must become relative!”
Lawrence M. Krauss, The Physics of Star Trek

Michel Houellebecq
“La spécificité de la littérature, art majeur d'un Occident qui sous nos yeux se termine, n'est pourtant pas bien difficile à définir. Autant que la littérature, la musique peut déterminer un bouleversement, un renversement émotif, une tristesse ou une extase absolues ; autant que la littérature, la peinture peut générer un émerveillement, un regard neuf porté sur le monde. Mais seule la littérature peut vous donner cette sensation de contact avec un autre esprit humain, avec l'intégralité de cet esprit, ses faiblesses et ses grandeurs, ses limitations, ses petitesses, ses idées fixes, ses croyances ; avec tout ce qui l'émeut, l'intéresse, l'excite ou lui répugne. Seule la littérature peut vous permettre d'entrer en contact avec l'esprit d'un mort, de manière plus directe, plus complète et plus profonde que ne le ferait même la conversation avec un ami”
Michel Houellebecq, Soumission

Umberto Eco
“Il riso libera il villano dalla paura del diavolo, perché nella festa degli stolti anche il diavolo appare povero e stolto, dunque controllabile. Ma questo libro potrebbe insegnare che liberarsi della paura del diavolo è sapienza.”
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa

Umberto Eco
“Ma da questo libro quante menti corrotte come la tua trarrebbero l’estremo sillogismo, per cui il riso è il fine dell’uomo! Il riso distoglie, per alcuni istanti, il villano dalla paura. Ma la legge si impone attraverso la paura, il cui nome vero è timor di Dio.”
Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa

Haruki Murakami
“I still have that fear, even now—that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I’ll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others.” He”
Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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