“Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.”
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
“Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoveled into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.”
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
“Take those frauds who practice pseudoscience - do you know who they're most afraid of?"
"Scientists, of course."
"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― The Three-Body Problem
"Scientists, of course."
"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― The Three-Body Problem
“In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry for a thousand years.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
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