

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”
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“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer

“People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused. ”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
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