“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”
R. Scott Bakker book The Warrior Prophet
Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Source: The Warrior Prophet (2005)
“Human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.”
— David Mitchell, book Cloud Atlas
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After", p. 286
Cloud Atlas (2004)
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