We're going to go build a mirror-factory first and put out nothing but mirrors for the next year and take a long look in them.
What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it? It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out.
What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.
The universe... won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.
Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone?
The falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms.
...you can have what you want if you really want it.
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