portent.

Death is the only lighthouse that is always lit. No matter where you sail, ultimately, you must turn toward it. Everything fades in the world, but Death endures.”

august

Cheng Xin felt she was at the foot of a cliff at midnight.

nonpareil

“If we lose our human nature, we lose much, but if we lose our bestial nature, we lose everything.”

But, in our age, conscience and duty are not ideals: an excess of either is seen as a mental illness called social-pressure personality disorder. You should seek treatment.”

The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.

“From a scientific perspective, ‘destroy’ isn’t really accurate. Nothing has disappeared. All the matter that used to be there is still there, and so is all the angular momentum. It’s only the arrangement of matter that has changed, like a deck of cards being reshuffled. But life is like a straight flush: Once you shuffle, it’s gone.”