Scarabs were sacred to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams.
As the universe relentlessly expanded, the stars moved ever farther from Earth, until in a distant time after the end of the human era, maybe the night sky would no longer be richly diamonded, but would offer blackness relieved solely by the moon that reflected the light of the only star that would ever matter, the sun in its.
He put aside the jeweled scarab and the loupe to examine my coin. “Where did you get this?
Every period of enlightenment is followed by a new and more efficient barbarism. They preach the necessity of truth even as they flee from it. Some believe in immortality through.
Just then he gets a text message from Ace of Diamonds with a destination. He.
Is it worth something?” “At retail, from a collector, it would bring forty thousand dollars, maybe a few thousand less.
Her signature style is hyperrealism, an attempt to capture everything a photograph might and then much more: what the mind knows about a scene that the scene itself does not reveal; what the heart feels about the subject before it; how the past lives in the present and how the future looms real but unrevealed; what any moment on the Earth might mean, if it means anything at all.
Anyway, the human heart being what it was, those who erased the past would in fact purge only the wisdom and preserve the evils.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Dorian wrote essays identifying serious problems facing humanity – and then proposing solutions. Often controversial solutions. He covered everything from overpopulation to declining population, global warming to global cooling, nuclear-fusion power to the practicality of million-acre solar farms, likely paths to curing cancer, and.
Woody said, “No. His name is Kipp.
A man who believes in nothing may look strong, but he’s fragile. He can be made to believe in anything, for the emptiness in him yearns to be filled.
He paused in his drinking to watch torsional fish, their fins wimpling as they swam through the sun-pierced pools in which the descending stream periodically gathered itself.
Ganesh held up one hand. “There’s more, and it suggests that tens of thousands of people, focused on the same expectation, can unwittingly affect reality and make that expectation come to pass.
From Emily’s favorite of Shakespeare’s sonnets.
She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.
There’s not the slightest blemish on his reputation. He’s an enlightened progressive lawman.
He makes eye contact with Katie for a moment, and then rests his chin.
Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we’re here to learn.