Author:: Cixin Liu
Full Title:: The Dark Forest
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* highlights from 2021-02-08
* Turbulence was everywhere, within every blade of grass, every drop of dew on a leaf, every cloud in the sky, and every star beyond. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape. ([Location 57](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00R13OYU6&location=57))
* Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin. ([Location 116](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00R13OYU6&location=116))
* Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places. ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00R13OYU6&location=166))
* Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years. ([Location 169](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00R13OYU6&location=169))
* Successful cooperation does not equate to successful understanding. ([Location 292](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00R13OYU6&location=292))