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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

“There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.”
― Steven Moffat

“We're all stories, in the end.”
― Steven Moffat

“Como nunca antes, el estudiante y la persona
interesada por la literatura lee comentarios y críticas de libros más que los propios
libros, o antes de esforzarse por formarse un juicio personal.”
― George Steiner, Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman