"The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats."

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Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Universe Quotes

“When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry.”
“We are entirely for the idea that Europe shall be free from nuclear weapons, from medium-range weapons as well as tactical weapons. That would be a real zero option.”

Source : "Nuclear War: The Search for Solutions". Book by Leonard V. Johnson, 1985.
“Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.”
“I dote on his very absence.”
“Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?”
“Victory loses its meaning without the memory of what you've vanquished.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2003). “Chasm City”, p.271, Penguin
“The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.”
“There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”

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