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Death Quote by Stanisław Lem

“The urge to destruction is deducible from thermodynamics. Life is a fraud, an attempt at enbezzlement, seeking to circumvent laws otherwise inevitable and implacable; insulated from the rest of the world, it immediately enters the path of decay, and that inclined plane leads to normal state of…” quote by Stanisław Lem
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““The urge to destruction is deducible from thermodynamics. Life is a fraud, an attempt at enbezzlement, seeking to circumvent laws otherwise inevitable and implacable; insulated from the rest of the world, it immediately enters the path of decay, and that inclined plane leads to normal state of matter, to the permanent equilibrium that is death. In order to continue living, life must feed on order, but because there is no order –non highly organized– other than life, it is condemned to consume itself. It must destroy to live, must take its nourishment from systems that are nourishment to the extent that they can be ruined. Not ethics but physics determines this law.””

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