Many people were bitterly puzzled that the first truly intelligent aliens to be found should be so immediately, unremittingly hostile, but the astron… - Paul J. McAuley

I read in some of it (the reference is to Shakespeare). It's not so bad when you get used to it, pretty archaic though. Why do you like old stuff like this?
"It has everything in it, if you look hard enough," Dorthy said, taking the sheaf. "Love, jealousy, avarice, loyalty, murder, madness...I find it reassuring that human nature is so constant."

And now you have had to alter your theory.
"Well," Andrews said, smiling, "that's science."

They survive.
"Ah yes, survive. And achieve nothing to deserve it."
"The only meaning of life, if it can be said to have meaning, is to survive. My brothers and sisters, herding their children on the plains, find meaning in the simple pattern of their lives and need nothing more. They are immersed in the processes of the world: all is one. That is their religion. They seek no other meaning.
"Your race, now, believes that expansion is all. You think to outrace your dark destiny, believe that the whole universe is yours when you understand so little of it."