"All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is."

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Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.310, Hachette UK

Vernor Vinge

#Evil Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Twisted Quotes

“The internet is completely over.”
“The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.”
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
“When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.”

Source : "If it's melted, it's ruined". Interview with Sarah Left, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
“A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.”
“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.”
“The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.”
“When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.”

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