Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• "Well, you're not alone anymore, buddy. Neither of us are."
  - Ryland Grace

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

• "A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity."
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• "These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It will come."
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• "Don't you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again...?"
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• "This step forward... will transform the experience of love, which is now full of error, alter it root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman... this more human form of love... consists in two solitudes protecting, defining, and welcoming one another."
  - Page 38
• "Almost all our sadnesses are periods of tautening that we experience as numbness because we can no longer hear the stirring of our feelings... Because we are alone with the strange thing that has entered into us; because everything familiar and accustomed is taken away from us for a moment; because we are in the middle of a transition where we cannot stand still."
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• "The quieter, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us, the better we shall acquire it, the more it will be our fate."
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• "We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us."
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• "Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help."
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• "You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall."
  - Page 45