Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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'Reasons are for peasants.'
Matthew Stover
If the WormCam had shown nothing else, he thought, it was this, with pitiless clarity: that the lives of most humans had been miserable and short, deprived of freedom and joy and comfort, their brief moments in the light reduced to sentences to be endured.
Arthur C. Clarke
