“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
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