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- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer, Philosopher
- Nationality: french
- Born: June 2, 1740
- Died: December 2, 1814
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
Ray Bradbury
The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his shoulders?"No," said the girl and turned and came running back in amazement. "You don't mean to say that you have seen a man walk by with such big ears?"I have never seen anyone who walks with his ears," said Pippi. "All the people I know walk with their feet.
Astrid Lindgren
We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians . . . were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space if fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
H. G. Wells