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“The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in the morning after its troublesome absence at night were noted by people around the world; these phenomena spoke to our ancestors of the possibility of surviving death. Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
Beatriz’s 2025 Year in Books
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