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“A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“Here, if nowhere else in the land, the sense of satiety is unknown; and it is to this mental tonic, even more than to the bracing air of the heights, that we owe the unwearied spirit which nerves us to walk more leagues upon the mountains than we could walk miles upon the plain. For in the lowlands we walk with the body only; in the highlands we walk with the mind”
― Henry Stephens Salt, On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills: Pilgrimages to Snowdon and Scafell

“This was what most people wanted: to be close to but not part of. They didn't want the fearful unknown of a 'pristine wilderness.' They didn't want a soulless artificial life, either.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Authority

“Quasi nessuno scopre mai che le sue azioni feriscono davvero gli altri. La gente non migliora, diventa solo più furba. Quando diventi più furbo, non smetti di strappare le ali alle mosche, cerchi solo di trovare dei motivi migliori per farlo.”
― Stephen King, Carrie