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“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.” William Shakespeare, Othello

“The Buddha knew one thing science didn't prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Our real discoveries come from chaos . . . from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“We were ruinous together . . . But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of the matter of this chaos must, in accordance with these laws, dispose and arrange itself in such a way as to present the appearance of heavens; how in the meantime some of its parts must compose an...” René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

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