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“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City

“Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does.”
― Sukhraj S. Dhillon

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Att världen är oerhört väl inrättad för att inte minst liv skall uppkomma verkar stå utom allt tvivel. Men hur kan detta vara möjligt om världen i minsta detalj är entydigt bestämds av matematisk nödvändighet? Varför skulle matematiken bry sig om att frambringa en levande värld? Är det inte troligare att matematiken i stället tillåter flera olika möjligheter och att den antropiska principen sedan gör resten?”
― Ulf Danielsson, Stjärnor och äpplen som faller: En bok om upptäckter och märkvärdigheter i universum

“One: An end to cross-ownership in businesses. For example: weapons manufacturers cannot own TV stations, mining corporations cannot run newspapers, business houses cannot fund universities, drug companies cannot control public health funds. Two: Natural resources and essential infrastructure—water supply, electricity, health, and education—cannot be privatized. Three: Everybody must have the right to shelter, education, and health care. Four: The children of the rich cannot inherit their parents’ wealth.”
― Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

“I knew from the lingering shadows in his eyes that he had been to that site where diseased shadow crept into his pulsing heart and altered his sanity.”
― W.H. Pugmire, Gathered Dust and Others

“[...] my imagination isn’t cosmic — it’s supernatural. Where my fiction aligns with HPL’s [Lovecraft's] is in my obsession to write Literature, to create literary art, to write beautifully. In themes, we are very different. My fiction is emotional, his is intellectual. Most of his characters flee from the horrors; mine ARE the horrors, or long to be so.”
― W.H. Pugmire, Gathered Dust and Others