the cosmic lie of reason

 

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

 

~ Mark Nepo ~

 

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nothing

 

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

 

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

 

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the milk of human kindness

 

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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shadow and light

 

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

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this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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genése

 

“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”

 

~ Antonio Porchia ~

 

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AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

 

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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SANDS

 

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

 

~ Margaret Atwood ~

 

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THE MYTH OF DISTANCE

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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THIS TOO SHALL PASS

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

 

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS

 

“Billions of years from now our sun,

then a distended red giant star,

will have reduced Earth to a charred cinder.

But the Voyager record will still be largely intact,

in some other remote region of the Milky Way galaxy,

preserving a murmur of an ancient civilization that once flourished.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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SURVIVAL

 

“You can’t run away from trouble.

There ain’t no place that far.”

 

~ Uncle Remus ~

 

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SHADOW AND LIGHT

 

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 

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