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Cephalopods, with the partial exception of squid, acquired a non-social form of intelligence. The octopus, most of all, would follow a path of lone idiosyncratic complexity.
“Everything we do today defines us—because tomorrow might never come.”
― Destiny: The Complete Saga
― Destiny: The Complete Saga
“Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.”
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“I know you’re almost forty, look almost thirty, think you’re just over twenty and act as though you’re barely ten.”
― Blood of Elves
― Blood of Elves
“Reality is inelegant,” Phillip huffed. “No,” Martin said definitively. “Reality is stunningly elegant. Our understanding of it is not.”
― Spell or High Water
― Spell or High Water
“Before I leave this world, I am never going to say, “I didn’t do this”or “I regret I did that.” I am going to say: “I came, I went, I did nothing, I did all.”
― Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism
― Do Nothing & Do Everything: An Illustrated New Taoism
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