“Maybe those nihilist philosophers are right; maybe this is all we can expect of the universe, a relentless crushing of life and spirit, because the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death…”

— Arthur C. Clarke, book The Light of Other Days

Source: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 28

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