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“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
― Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
“In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
“There’s no arguing, no needling, no discussion. It is quiet and awkward and terrifying.”
― Gnomon
― Gnomon
“Life and death played out before my very eyes.
You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.”
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You don't see these things if you clean your room regularly.”
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“Delaurier makes an intrigued noise and picks up the finished drawings Renoir has sitting under a rock, just in case the wind picks up.
"I like them."
"Of course you do. They're the cruelly oppressed creatures of society," Renaire says. "Look at how the bourgeois humans have hurt them, how they're forced to huddle near sewer vents for warmth in this brutal freezing world. These poor souls need your help, Emile. Look at their plight, their misery. Save the pigeons.”
― Gnomon
"I like them."
"Of course you do. They're the cruelly oppressed creatures of society," Renaire says. "Look at how the bourgeois humans have hurt them, how they're forced to huddle near sewer vents for warmth in this brutal freezing world. These poor souls need your help, Emile. Look at their plight, their misery. Save the pigeons.”
― Gnomon
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