"If you had to relive your life exactly as it was â€“ same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy â€“ would you want to? Was it worth it?"

-- Gavin Extence

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“The only thing they recognize is a buffet”
“This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.”
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”
“In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.”
“You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.”
“At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime”

Source : 'Antarctica' (1985) title poem.
“I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.52, Anchor
“From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks”

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