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"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."
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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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"Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much? Have you practis'd so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self."


"My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them."


"WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear-it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?"


"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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