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Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy

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Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker

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Here’s how I’d articulate the fundamental principles of the neurodiversity paradigm: Neurodiversity—the diversity among minds—is a natural, healthy, and valuable form of human diversity. There is no “normal” or “right” style of human mind, ...more

Space (Manifold, #2)

by Stephen Baxter

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Time (Manifold #1)

by Stephen Baxter

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Daniel’s Quotes

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: art, inspiration, poetry

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“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

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“What we desire is not the wonderful, beautiful, specific thing, but the higher thing its wonder, beauty, and specificity suggest.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Phallos

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“You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

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“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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