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The Three-Body Problem

by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu

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“In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong.”

Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems separate is only because it is in a different form. In reality, it is but a part of the vast ocean.…

Everyone likes to reminisce, but no one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

We define a technology leap to occur when fundamental science is converted to applied technology across a great span in an extremely brief time interval.

Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile.

“No, emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself.”

The universe had nothing that could act on it, and it could act on nothing. It hung there, never moving, never changing, like a perfect interpretation for death.

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