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“We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy we are being nothing other than what we can’t help but be: a part of our world.”
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”
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“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
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“The goddess did not shoot me in my home,
aiming with gentle arrows. Nor did sickness
suck all the strength out from my limbs, with long
and cruel wasting. No, it was missing you,
Odysseus, my sunshine; your sharp mind,
and your kind heart. That took sweet life from me.
— The Odyssey (11.198-203)”
― The Odyssey
aiming with gentle arrows. Nor did sickness
suck all the strength out from my limbs, with long
and cruel wasting. No, it was missing you,
Odysseus, my sunshine; your sharp mind,
and your kind heart. That took sweet life from me.
— The Odyssey (11.198-203)”
― The Odyssey
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