{"quotes":[{"text":"A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is 'dense', sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with what intensity nature or a landscape can negate us. At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise. The primitive hostility of the world rises up to face us across millenia.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["absurdity","hostility","strangeness","world"],"id":18363,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["strangeness","tolerance","wine"],"id":20979,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.","author":"Charles Baudelaire","tags":["beauty","strangeness"],"id":28149,"author_id":"Charles+Baudelaire"},{"text":"He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves.","author":"T.A. Miles","tags":["death","dying","fey","genetic-state","life","living","science","science-fiction","strange-angels","strangeness","thriller"],"id":42933,"author_id":"T.A.+Miles"},{"text":"In my family strange is relative.","author":"Kate Rockland","tags":["family-relationships","strangeness"],"id":57492,"author_id":"Kate+Rockland"},{"text":"We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["newspapers","self","strangeness","weirdness"],"id":60238,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.","author":"Yuhta Nishio","tags":["after-hours","anxiety","cooking","emi","friendship","kitchen","nishio","strangeness","yuhta"],"id":76590,"author_id":"Yuhta+Nishio"},{"text":"I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.","author":"Sigbjørn Obstfelder","tags":["alienation","anomie","loneliness","strangeness"],"id":95299,"author_id":"Sigbj%C3%B8rn+Obstfelder"},{"text":"There are others who have strange eyes?' I asked, perking up.Kester suddenly wished he hadn't spoken. 'Well, not as distinctive as you. No one actually has purple ones. Shades of green and blue are sometimes too bright than normal, but I don't recall anyone having eyes like y.","author":"Deepika Kumaaraguru","tags":["humour","strangeness"],"id":112313,"author_id":"Deepika+Kumaaraguru"},{"text":"If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange.","author":"Sarah-Kate Lynch","tags":["perspective","strangeness"],"id":123270,"author_id":"Sarah-Kate+Lynch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}