"You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely"

-- Max Frisch

“I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.”
“By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.”
“Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.”
“It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded...again.”
“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best.Â You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.”
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. Thatâ€™s the sound of being alive. Itâ€™s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before itâ€™s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their canâ€™t-do-this, and canâ€™t-do-thatâ€™s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.”
“Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Natureâ€™s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. Itâ€™s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.”

Source : Tony Hoagland, “A Color of the Sky”

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