"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

-- Aldous Huxley

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“It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.”
“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

Source : Cynthia Rylant (2015). “In November”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Nature is my temple; trees are my priests; birds, my rabbis; rains, my imams! Nature is my only true and eternal religion.”
“When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.”
“I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.”
“The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Elliott Coues (1987). “The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike”, Dover Pubns
“On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.”
“A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.”

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