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“Man is born in order to think (there he is, Kirill, finally!). Except that I don't believe that. I've never believed it, and I still don't believe it, and what man is born for -I have no idea. He's born, that's all. Scrapes by as best he can.”
― Roadside Picnic
― Roadside Picnic
“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks to find common features in terms of shared aspects of organization.”
― The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
― The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
“Una Ensenada sólo vista en postales
una región perpleja del recuerdo”
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una región perpleja del recuerdo”
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“He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.”
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