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“But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.”

— Exodus 33:20, Exodus 33:20

“A tree grew and became strong; its height reached to the heavens; it was visible to the end of the entire earth”

— Daniel 4:7, Daniel 4:7

“'Through the agency of the cloud I will appear upon the Ark-cover.'”

— Bible, Bible

“What became of you, Elizabeth, out there on the road with your son? But what, after all, had become of anyone? His parents, his colleagues, all his friends from his life before the airport, Robert? If all of them had vanished, uncounted and unmarked, why not Elizabeth too? He closed his eyes. Thinki…”

— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Later that evening she would find herself troubled and at moments even a little amused by the memory of how casually everyone had once thrown the word collapse around, before anyone understood what the word truly meant.”

— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“One of the great scientific questions of Galileo's time was whether the Milky Way was made up of individual stars. Impossible to imagine this ever having been in question in the age of electricity, but the night sky was a wash of light in Galileo's age, and it was a wash of light now. The era of lig…”

— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Miranda smiled at the thought that that there were people in this reeling world who were safe. She opened her eyes in time to see the sunrise. A wash of violent color, pink and streaks of brilliant orange, the container ships on the horizon suspended between the blaze of the sky and the water aflame…”

— Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“Every dream is supplanted by a new one, and you can't try to hold tight to any of them.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

“God knows where these things we say come from!”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

“When we hate someone, what we hate is something in him, or in our image of him, that is part of ourselves. Nothing that isn't in us ever bothers us.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

“At the time I thought I had reached an island of peace, but it was always the same — no sooner had I gotten used to a situation, no sooner had a dream helped me a little, then it too shriveled and went blind.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

“Ideas, images, or wishes rose up in me and pulled me away from the outside world, to the point where my relationship with these pictures inside me, these dreams and shadows, were truer and more vital than those I had with my true surroundings.”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian

“We don't need an answer to the question of life's meaning, just as we don't need a theory of everything. What we need are multifarious descriptions of many things, further descriptions of phenomena that change the aspect under which they are seen, that light them up and let us see them anew.”

— Simon Critchley, nytimes.com

“Patagonia follows through on the dirtbag ethos in both its product line and its corporate giving. One doesn't compensate for the other. Patagonia uses organic cotton and recycled fleece and shell materials, so that its manufacturing takes as little toll as possible on the environment. The products t…”

— Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box

“Build the great arch of unimagined bridges.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Your blood flowed darkly.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Anxious, we keep longing for a foothold — we, at times too young for what is old and too old for what has never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”

— Hermann Hesse, Demian

“I watched because— God help the human race— there's nothing harder not to watch than two men fighting.”

— Jonathan Gottschall, The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch