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It’s the beautiful thing about youth. There’s a weightlessness that permeates everything because no damning choices have been made, no paths committed to, and the road forking out ahead is pure, unlimited potential.
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Margaret Atwood
“Men can imagine their own deaths, they can see them coming, and the mere though of impending death acts like an aphrodisiac. A dog or rabbit doesn't behave like that. Take birds -- in a lean season they cut down on the eggs, or they won't mate at all. They put their energy into staying alive themselves until times get better. But human beings hope they can stick their souls into someone else, some new version of themselves, and live on forever.

As a species were doomed by hope, then?

You could call it hope. That, or desperation.

But we're doomed without hope, as well, said Jimmy.

Only as individuals, said Crake cheerfully.”
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

Dan Simmons
“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”
Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion

Lord Byron
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“Boj proti zlu! Ale co je to zlo? Každý má možnost ho chápat po svém. Pro nás, vědce, je zlo v neznalosti, ale církev učí, že neznalost je štěstí a všechno zlo pochází naopak z vědění. Pro rolníka jsou zlem daně a sucha, kdežto pro obchodníka obilím jsou sucha požehnáním. Pro otroka je zlem opilý pán, pro řemeslníka ziskuchtivý lichvář. Tak co je vlastně zlo, proti kterému se má bojovat? Zlo se nedá vyhubit. Žádný člověk není schopen snížit množství zla ve světě. Může jen poněkud zlepšit svůj vlastní osud, ale vždycky na úkor zhoršení osudu jiných. A vždycky budou králové, více či méně krutí, baroni, více či méně divocí, a vždycky bude omezený lid, nadšeně vzhlížející ke svým utlačovatelům a nenávidějící svého osvoboditele. A to všechno proto, že otrok mnohem lépe rozumí svému pánovi, byť sebekrutějšímu, než svému osvoboditeli, neboť každý otrok si výborně dokáže představit sám sebe na místě pána, ale málokdo si představuje sám sebe na místě nezištného osvoboditele. Takoví jsou lidé. Takový je náš svět.”
Arkadij Strugackij, Hard to Be a God

David  Mitchell
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner.”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
tags: music

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