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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

Ursula K. Le Guin | A Wizard of Earthsea

We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.

Stephen King | Wolves of the Calla

You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.

Vincent | Gattaca

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about β€œI.”

Alan W. Watts | The Wisdom of Insecurity

I can live with failure, but I can't live with what-ifs.

Lil Dicky | Dave

To the edge of the Universe and back, Endure and survive.

Savage Starlight | The Last of Us

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.

Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov

There’s no mystery about a human life. It’s not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Frank Herbert | Children of Dune

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin | The Left Hand of Darkness

My granddaddy always said: "If you got a problem you can't solve. It helps to get out of your head." Pie. It's good.

Agent K | Men in Black III

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.