“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”
― The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
― The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”
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“I can't speak the language of science without a corresponding poetry.”
― Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
― Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays
“His greatest virtue, I think, was his honesty--not only to others but to himself...He demanded freedom of expression and lived in what we consider the most important of moral freedoms; freedom from hate, unconditionally; freedom from all self-pity (even throughout all the pain and bad news); freedom from fear of possibly doing something that might help another more than it might help himself; and freedom from that kind of pride that could make a man feel he was better than his brother or neighbor”
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