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“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”
― Lord Byron

“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Novel: A small tale, generally of love.”
― Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One