The Theory of Clouds Quotes
The Theory of Clouds
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“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“Men are destroyed, and destroy each other, over basic things – money or hatred. On the other hand a really complicated riddle never pushed anyone to violence; either you found the answer or gave up looking. Clouds were riddles too, but dangerously simple ones. If you zoomed in on one part of a cloud and took a photograph, then enlarged the image, you would find that a cloud’s edges seemed like another cloud, and those edges yet another, and so on. Every part of a cloud, in other words, reiterates the whole. Therefore each cloud might be called infinite, because its very surface is composed of other clouds, and those clouds of still other clouds, and so forth. Some learn to lean over the abyss of these brainteasers; others lose their balance and tumble into its eternal blackness.”
― La teoría de las nubes
― La teoría de las nubes
“Tout pourrait être beaucoup plus simple. Tout pourrait être beaucoup plus simple, mais rares sont les êtres qui savent s'élever à la hauteur d'une telle simplicité.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“The law of computers is the same as the law of the marketplace. The earth's atmosphere was divided up into a network of cubes, each reducible to a collection of points, and each point the product of a set of calculations. As far as science was concerned, this was the end of clouds, which were but a series of coordinates simulated in a space of greater than three dimensions.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand, immobilized five men for an indeterminate amount of time; and who knew whether it was even worth the effort.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“La jungle bruie selon ses propres lois, insoucieuse des hommes qui croient l'explorer. Dans les forêts où l'homme vient régulièrement chasser, à proximité des villes, dans toute l'Europe et particulièrement en Angleterre, les animaux ont depuis longtemps appris à se taire à l'approche de l'homme, à le fuir comme le prédateur suprême : cette créature qui tue contre nature, sans que la nécessité ne l'y force. Le silence apaisant de nos campagnes n'est que le signe tangible de la terreur que l'homme y fait régner.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“Les Japonais du Pacifique ne cherchent pas à sauver leur vie; ils pensent que leur pays va disparaître : qui voudrait survivre à cela? Et si l'on ne peut plus empêcher leur victoire, c'est quelque chose à faire encore, de priver l'adversaire des vaincus. Car de toutes les civilisations, celle des États-Unis d'Amérique a ceci de particulier qu'elle a besoin de vaincus. Elle a besoin de ces Japonais désespérés, elle a besoin d'Allemands et d'Italiens pouilleux et martyrisés, elle a besoin de Français et de Belges honteux, elle a besoin d'eux comme un fils aimant et dément rêve que ses parents soient gâteux, afin de pouvoir les nourrir, de les aider à reconstruire, de leur prêter de l'argent, de leur vendre, de leur acheter.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
“The tranquility of the countryside was the tangible sign of man's reign of terror.”
― The Theory of Clouds
― The Theory of Clouds
