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“Laplace is reported to have said on his deathbed that science was mere trifling, and that nothing was real but love.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

“mundane things are composed of a galaxy of the unfamiliar.”
― Adam Becker, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

“Take no one’s word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination. In this iteration, for me the author, Beloved the girl, the haunter, is the ultimate Other. Clamoring, forever clamoring for a kiss.”
― Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others