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Since science looked at everything in terms of quantity and function instead of quality and intention, the world it described could sound frighteningly alien.
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Blaise Pascal
“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
Blaise Pascal

Leo Tolstoy
“Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at your side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.”
Leo Tolstoy, The Emperor's Three Questions

Samuel R. Delany
“She cut through worlds, and joined them—that’s the important part—so that both became bigger.”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany
“All the misunderstandings that tie the world up and keep people apart were quivering before me at once, waiting for me to untangle them, explain them, and I couldn’t. I didn’t know the words, the grammar, the syntax.”
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

Samuel R. Delany
“An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room; I am—”
samuel r. delany, Babel-17

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