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With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.”
― V.S. Ramachandran

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann  

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“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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“Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.”
― Arthur Koestler

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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're misinformed.”
― Mark Twain

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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We are most artistically caged.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire 

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“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

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“A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the others key”
― Piet Hein

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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged  

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  “Universe consists of frozen light.”
                                           ― David Bohm  

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“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?”
― Stan Brakhage 

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“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi

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“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

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“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Rumi

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“Whatever is,is in its causes just;
But purblind man
Sees but a part o' the chain;the nearest link;
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam
That poises all above.”
― John Dryden, Oedipus.

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“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal