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“It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
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“It might be a dungeon
of suffering and pain full
yet this life is worth living
and this world is beautiful.”
― Dream's Sake
of suffering and pain full
yet this life is worth living
and this world is beautiful.”
― Dream's Sake
“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global catastrophe.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.”
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“The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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