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"The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not turning into phantoms. We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and our future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information."
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."
"The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us."
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
"Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself."
"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
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"I came to abominate my body, I came to sense that two eyes, two hands, two lungs are as monstrous as two faces."
"All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know."
"Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual."
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
"Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much."
"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
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