We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. - Stanisław Lem

I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.

The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible

We came here as we truly are, and when the other side shows us that truth — the part of it we pass over in silence — we’re unable to come to terms with it!