Shall we ever be able to fathom the mysteries of the Universe with only the five senses which Nature has temporarily entrusted to us?

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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You see a beautiful woman in the distance and you wish she would be yours. When she is closer, you realize to your sorrow that se is your wife.

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For the time being, the history of the 21st century is a blank book. Yet the blood that will make it purple is already pulsating frantically through veins.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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The idealist claims that it is the idea of a stone that has hit him in the head. What is more, he maintains that the result is but the idea of a swelling bump.

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A container with proof of the civilization of our century has been buried in Osaka. It is to be dug out in 5,000 years' time. It remains to be seen whether archeologists will be that patient!

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Is that evolution? We have made ourselves clothes and lost our fur; we have made ourselves fur caps and lost our hair; we have made ourselves computers and only the devil knows what we are going to lose next.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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