“If love is a gamble, baby let me roll my dice.”
Dua Lipa (1995) English singer and songwriter
Source: instagram.com/dualipa
“In the beginning and the end, it’s all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.”
— Lisa Mason, book Summer of Love
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 2 “Do You Believe in Magic?” (p. 35)
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Stanisław Lem book Imaginary Magnitude
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James Baldwin book Nobody Knows My Name
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Elements of Physiology (1875)