Sublime
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in a godless universe, the abject horror of meaningless existence is too much for any individual to bear.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
All life is an experiment. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Ken Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Brave New World founded my nascent moral philosophy and became the subject of my college admissions essay,
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing ... See more
In short, the universe – the world, human life – is a preposterous fluke.
Martin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”