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#1

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: connection, evolution, humanity, humility, life, love, meaning, people, purpose, vastness

#2

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

tags: failure, perseverance

1887 likes

#3

“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”
― Harlan Ellison

107 likes

#4

“I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.”
― Eric Basso

tags: ambiguity-in-literature, life

4 likes

#5

“The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.”
― Harlan Ellison, Strange Wine

104 likes

#6

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

1814 likes

#7

“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: atheism, science

866 likes

#8

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, dont you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

tags: life, memory

730 likes

#9

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison

551 likes

#10

“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy

720 likes

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