Basma

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's Philosophical Exploration of Art and Tragedy

“so many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius