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Historically speaking, we live in an embarrassment of riches and peace. All of these evolutions and more are tightly interwoven. Inseparable. But there is a simple fact that is often overlooked. They are artificial. We have been living in a
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“Every attempt to bend some part of the world to our will creates disorder somewhere else, often in the form of heat.”
― The End of Everything
― The End of Everything
“We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos.”
― The End of Everything
― The End of Everything
“There is a difference between understanding and forgiveness. It’s possible to have one without the other.”
― The Witch's Heart
― The Witch's Heart
“Earth is in heaven. It spins, falls, and floats in a spiral nebula. Earth is not opposed to heaven: it belongs in it as a member of the whole company of the stars.”
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“But the shock and vertigo of the recognition of the fragility of everything, and my own powerlessness in it, has left its mark on me.”
― The End of Everything
― The End of Everything
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