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Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from
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“I did that,” says my memory. “I could not have done that,” says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually—the memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil”
― The Suspect
― The Suspect
“For it was their world, not Man’s. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.”
― The Sands of Mars
― The Sands of Mars
“Antonina woke in the night to help midwife an animal like a giraffe (always tricky because the mother gives birth standing up, the calf falls headfirst, and the mother doesn't want help anyway).”
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
“The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“The absolute quality of hate explains any human action even if it throws something inhuman around it.”
― Dawn
― Dawn
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