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“Stories were the way People lived. Like paths, they could be traveled in any direction, yet always ran from beginning to end.”
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
― Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’ Laurence Arne-Sayles, interview in The Secret Garden, May 1976”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“the universe is structured in such a way that no matter how many mysteries you solve, there is always a deeper mystery behind it.”
― The Library at Mount Char
― The Library at Mount Char
“Are you familiar with the notion of regression completeness?” She had heard the term somewhere, but couldn’t quite call up the meaning. “No.” “It’s the idea that however deeply you understand the universe, however many mysteries you solve, there will always be another, deeper mystery behind it.” “Ah.”
― The Library at Mount Char
― The Library at Mount Char
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