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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

Alan Lightman

So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Give Little Love Other Return Selfish Want
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Another Strand Idea Importance Write
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Achievement Age Fact Flood Great Image Megabit Planet So Throughout
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Nature Purposeless Simply
Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Complex Cream Discuss Issue President Subtleties
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Each Same Time True Truth
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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Disturb Everything Faster Happen Less Quiet World
All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Appreciation Consider Existence Larger Nature Spiritual Thing
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Along Bluefish Make Mind Predetrmine Second Squirm Unyield Wriggle
“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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Appointment Body Exist Morning Precisely Think
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap

Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.

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