“Poetry endows our stay on earth and constitutes the only spiritual path. To name an object is to suppress three-quarters of the enjoyment to be found in a poem... suggestion, that is the dream.”
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“the history of the earth that had seemed so solid, so fixed under and around him, came alive, though the unknown author’s awkward, unpolished style — the book being written now in the present and now in the past tense — confused him, so he couldn’t be sure whether he was reading a work of prophecy regarding the earth’s condition after the demise of humanity or a proper work of geological history based on the planet on which he actually lived.”
― Satantango
― Satantango
“If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent… The skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.”
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“This was quite the leap, since at the time insects were believed to spontaneously generate.”
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
― Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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