“There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.”
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“The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.”
“Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.”
“All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.”
“Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.”