Kishore Kumar

“The earth of a hundred millennia ago was walked by at least six different species of man. Its our current exclusivity, not that multi-species past, that is peculiar and perhaps incriminating. As we will shortly see, we Sapiens have good reasons to repress the memory of our siblings.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Oh, Nastenka! You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life!”
― Dostoevskiy, Белые ночи. White Nights. Belye nochi Dostoevsky

“Oh, bless you, dear girl, for not turning me away from the very first time, for making it possible that I can now say that I have lived at least two evenings in my life!”
― Fyodor Dostosvsky

“the truly unique feature of our language is not its ability to transmit
information about men and lions. Rather, it’s the ability to transmit information
about things that do not exist at all. As far as we know, only Sapiens can talk
about entire kinds of entities that they have never seen, touched or smelled.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind