Anas

“But if humanity relied on chemical rockets, they might never become a true spacefaring race.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: Remembrance of Earth's Past

“You remind me of an intellectual I met two hundred years ago. He had the same hangdog look you’ve got. I remember him sitting out early in the morning in front of the Wangfujing church, crying.... But he got out okay. I checked after I woke up: He lived to be nearly a hundred.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem Trilogy: Remembrance of Earth's Past

“A spider had no special skill other than building its web, and no lifestyle choice other than sitting still.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“I think I exist,’ he said wearily. ‘I am conscious of my own identity. I was born and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously. In that sense, does Big Brother exist?”
― George Orwell, 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) with Quoates