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“Inexpressible and nameless is that which gives my soul agony and sweetness and is even the hunger of my entrails.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded engagement of the self. Once we’ve hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Come...Dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“As far as the laws of probability, my lady, these cannot be broken, any more than any other mathematical principle. But laws of physics and mathematics are like a coordinate system that runs in only one dimension. Perhaps there is another dimension perpendicular to it, invisible to those laws of physics, describing the same things with different rules, and those rules are written in our hearts, in a deep place where we cannot go and read them except in our dreams.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“How strange it is that the sky, which by day is a stationary ground on which the clouds are seen to move, by night becomes the backdrop for Earth's own motion, so that we feel her rolling beneath us as a sailor feels the running of the tide.”
― Shadow & Claw
― Shadow & Claw
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