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| 33 | 30 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps what is alien to us is only ourselves in a different visage. |
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| 33 | 27 | It was cinched upon my body. |
| 33 | 28 | I thought of the melting of copper, the flame of sulfur, the structure of salt, of jagged Eros in its orbit, of the crags of Titan, of the interactions of compounds, the stirring of molecules, the movement of atoms, the trajectories of electrons. |
| 33 | 29 | How formidable seem the implacable correlations. |
| 33 | 30 | Perhaps what is alien to us is only ourselves in a different visage. |
| 33 | 31 | Perhaps the other is not different but, ultimately, the same. |
| 33 | 32 | When we seek the unknown is it ourselves for which we truly search? Then I dismissed such foolish thoughts. |
| 33 | 33 | Surely it could not be that the dark rhythms and the brotherhoods of diverse chemistries could have combined to produce on an alien sphere those who were our brothers. |