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It was at this period that Drogo realised how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain even though their love is great: hence the loneliness of life.

― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe.

Guillermo Lorca García H.

Look at your room late in the evening when you can hardly distinguish between colours any longer - turn on the light and paint what you saw in the twilight. There are pictures of landscapes or rooms in semi-darkness, but how do you compare the colours in such pictures with those you saw in semi-darkness? A colour shines in its surroundings. Just as cyes only smile in a face.

― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour

The future needed service, not pity, not piety; but in the past lay darkness, confusion, waste, and all the cramped primitive minds, bewildered, torturing one another in their stupidity, yet one and all in some unique manner, beautiful.

― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men.

Aistė Stancikaitė 

We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.

― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit.