For one pleasure a thousand pains François Villon, 1463
“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose
loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
― Klara and the Sun
loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.”
― Klara and the Sun
“Some have speculated that the alien beings have mastered time travel and come to us from the future. Sometimes they even communicate that this might be so. We do not know. But the guiding or regenerative myth of the abduction phenomenon offers a new story for a world that has survived many holocausts and may yet be deterred from a final cataclysm. The abduction phenomenon, it seems clear, is about what is yet to come. It presents, quite literally, visions of alternative futures, but it leaves the choice to us.”
― Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
― Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
“Even if it’s rare, to have a few times in life and no more, still worth living for, he thinks. To have met her like this: beautiful, perfect. A life worth living, yes.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Virtually every abductee receives information about the destruction of the earth’s ecosystem and feels compelled to do something about”
― Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
― Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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