“How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?”

—  Kim Stanley Robinson

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 7, “Senzeni Na” (p. 526)

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