Top 100 Cixin Quotes
#1. In this world, can everyone be dehydrated and rehydrated?
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#2. Hide yourself well; cleanse well.
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#3. No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.
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#4. This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.
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#5. Evans: We don't know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.
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#6. Once the slogans died down, the girl shouted, "God does not exist. All religions are tools concocted by the ruling class to paralyze the spirit of the people!
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#7. Earth's suitability for human life was no coincidence, much less an effect of the anthropic principle, but rather was an outcome of the long-term interaction between the biosphere and the natural environment,
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#8. In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.
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#9. We're going to advance! Advance! We'll stop at nothing to advance!
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#10. The universe is a hollow sphere floating in the middle of a sea of fire. There are numerous tiny holes in the surface of the sphere, as well as a large one. The light from the sea of flames shines through these holes. The tiny ones are stars, and the large one is the sun.
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#11. Luckily, the forest was so dense that the two escaped without injury, though one of the men peed in his pants.
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#12. Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.
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#13. Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin.
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#14. It was dark by the time Ye got off work on the eve of Chinese New Year, 1980.
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#15. Time is the one thing that can't be stopped. Like a sharp blade, it silently cuts through hard and soft, constantly advancing. Nothing is capable of jolting it even the slightest bit, but it changes everything.
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#16. The key is to set up some rules: which combinations of motion vectors are "healthy" and "beneficial," and which combinations are "detrimental" and "harmful." The former receive a survival advantage while the latter are disfavored.
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#17. Saving a species of bird or insect is no different from saving humankind. 'All lives are equal' is the basic tenet of Pan-Species Communism.
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#18. Emancipation of human nature inevitably brings with it scientific and technological progress.
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#19. Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.
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#20. As soon as we increase the dimensionality of this proton, it will become very small.
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#21. In the eternal night of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, two civilization had swept through like two shooting stars, and the universe had remembered their light.
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#22. I'm a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.
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#23. Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish.
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#24. You know how the joke goes: On the way to the execution ground, a condemned criminal complained that it was going to rain, and the executioner said, 'What have you got to worry about? We're the ones who've got to go back through it!
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#25. From the depths of his memory arose a tingling sadness, fragile and pure like morning dew, tinged with a rosy hue.
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#26. The false alarm was the result of the explosive amplifying effects of a hyper-information society when fed sensitive news.
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#27. It's a wonder to be alive. If you don't understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?
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#28. I want to tell all those who believe in God that I am not the Chosen One. I also want to tell all the atheists that I am not a history-maker. I am but an ordinary person. Unfortunately, I have not been able to walk the ordinary person's path. My path is, in reality, the journey of a civilization.
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#29. Every era puts invisible shackles on those who have lived through it, and I can only dance in my chains.
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#30. Inequality of survival is the worst sort of inequality, and the people and countries left behind will never just sit and wait for death while others have a way out. There
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#31. when humans are lost in space, it takes only five minutes to reach totalitarianism.
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#32. This is utter crap!It's enough to put up big-character posters everywhere on the ground, but we should not send them into space.
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#33. Mere existence is already the result of incredible luck. Such was the case on Earth in the past, and such has always been the case in this cruel universe. But at some point, humanity began to develop the illusion that they're entitled to life, that life can be taken for granted.
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#34. During research conducted with the neuroscientist Keiko Yamasuki, he discovered that brain activity for thoughts and memories operated on the quantum level rather than on the molecular level as previously believed.
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#35. Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They
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#36. On the day of the universe's Last Judgment, two humans and a robot belonging to the Earth and Trisolaran civilizations embraced each other in ecstasy.
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#37. The entire empire has sunk into a quagmire of extravagance from which they cannot extricate themselves.
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#38. The fish responsible for drying the sea are not here.
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#39. Existence is the premise for everything else.
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#40. The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us.
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#41. qualitative change is only produced by long-term quantitative accumulation.
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#42. Whatever they were dealing with was too important for them to care about keeping up appearances.
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#43. I need a dual-vector foil for cleansing.
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#44. there was little significance in their conversation, just father and son taking a verbal stroll together. The
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#45. When it was finally quiet again, she was no longer capable of making any sound. She stared at her father's lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life.
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#46. Should philosophy guide experiments, or should experiments guide philosophy?
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#47. Earth civilization had a way to transmit at the level of a Kardashev Type II civilization.
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#48. Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.
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#49. Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther into the distance. It is a drive completely divorced from the demands of survival.
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#50. Because the universe is not a fairy tale.
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#51. The brevity of a human lifespan tormented them as never before, and their hearts soared above the vault of time to join with their descendants and plunge into blood and fire in the icy cold of space, the eventual meeting place for the souls of all soldiers. *
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#52. Life and the world were perhaps ugly, but at the limits of the micro and macro scales, everything was harmonious and beautiful. The
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#53. Life shouldn't be a lifetime of waiting.
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#54. These days, they use so much pesticide that when I feed the children, I have to soak the vegetables for at least two hours.
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#55. Without the fear of heights, there can be no appreciation for the beauty of high places. At
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#56. There were few things that it needed to remember forever, and those were etched by its genes into the storage area known as instinct. Having
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#57. But one always awoke from a dream, just like the sun - which, though it would rise again, brought no fresh hope.
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#58. The reason evolution bestows all intelligent life with a desire to climb higher is far more profound than more base needs, even though we still do not understand its real purpose. Mountains are universal and we are all standing at the feet of mountains.
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#59. Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is.
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#60. He lacked the ability to thrive in society, but also the resources to ignore it. All he could do was hang on to the edge, suffering.
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#61. unscientific ways of thinking will dominate scientific thinking among human intellectuals, and lead to the collapse of the entire scientific system of thought.
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#62. If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?
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#63. It's easy to be led to the abyss.
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#64. The fate of the entire human race was now tied to these slender fingers. Without hesitation, Ye pressed the button.
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#65. Make time for civilization, for civilization won't make time.
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#66. He stood on the ice, his teeth chattering in the cold, a cold that seemed to come not from the lake water or icy wind, but from a direct transmission from outer space.
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#67. She was like a star, always so distant. Even the light she shone on me was always cold.
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#68. Everything you see before you is the result of poverty. But how are things any better in the wealthy countries? They protect their own environments, but then shift the heavily polluting industries to the poorer nations.
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#69. The turbulence was purposeless, but in huge quantities of purposeless turbulence, purpose took shape. The
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#70. Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.
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#71. To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.
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#72. A civilization that cannot see the sun and stars will be without religion. There
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#73. And now, the Sun really was melting, its blood seeping into the deadly plane. This was the last sunset. In
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#74. Yes. They spread out to cover the entire solar system. We're trapped
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#75. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.
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#77. If we lose our human nature, we lose much, but if we lose our bestial nature, we lose everything.
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#78. In her life, moments of happiness were only gaps between mass catastrophes. She was now afraid of happiness.
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#79. Even a fish can be used to commit a crime. I handled a murder case once. Some bitch cut off her husband's family jewels. You know what she used? A frozen tilapia she got out of the freezer! The spines along the back were like razors -
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#80. One thing in particular that struck him was the total absence of landscapes, the mark of a mature aesthetic sensibility: hanging landscape paintings in a house situated in the Garden of Eden would be as pointless as pouring a bucket of water into the ocean.
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#81. Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.
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#82. Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.
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#83. As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went.
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#84. In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.
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#85. Buddy, you're the one who was right!" Da Shi laughed, shaking his head. "I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!
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#86. The child that was human civilization had opened the door to her home and glanced outside. The endless night terrified her so much that she shuddered against the expansive and profound darkness, and shut the door firmly.
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#87. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.
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#88. Now you know the goal of this game: to use our intellect and understanding to analyze all phenomena until we can know the pattern of the sun's movement. The survival of civilization depends on it.
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#89. even in the face of the devastating Trisolar Crisis, the unity of the human race is still a distant dream. The
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#90. Let's go drinking and then go back to sleep like good bugs.
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#91. No,no.Don't say where we are!Once we know where we are,then the world becomes as narrow as a map.When we don't know,the world feels unlimited.
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#92. In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.
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#93. Time is the cruelest force of all.
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#94. Civilization was like a mad dash that lasted fie thousand years. Progress begot more progress; countless miracles gave birth to more miracles; humankind seemed to possess the power of gods; but in the end, the real power was wielded by time.
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#95. As soon as Wang left the Research Center building, the nightmarelike feeling caught up to him. He felt like the starry sky was a magnifying glass that covered the world, and he was a tiny insect below the lens with nowhere to hide.
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#96. Unlike other human religions, they worshipped something that truly existed. Also unlike other human religions, it was the Lord who was in crisis, and the duty of salvation fell on the shoulders of the believer.
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#97. Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.
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#98. I started the fire, but I couldn't control how it burnt.
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#99. The universe is grand, but life is grander. We're certain to meet again.
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#100. The universe is big, but life is bigger!
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