“I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.”

— David Zindell , book Neverness

from the meditations of Jin Zenimura
Neverness (1988)

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