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Temple and tower went down, nor left a site:-- Chaos of ruins! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 80) The world was void, The populous and the powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless-- A lump of death--a chaos of hard clay. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Darkness (l. 69) The chaos of events. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Prophecy of Dante (canto II, l. 6) We adore chaos because we like to restore order. - M.C. Escher When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. - Edith Hamilton Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. - Steve Martin Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - Henry Miller Chaos, that reigns here In double night of darkness and of shades. - John Milton, Comus (l. 334) Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 232) One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 13) Lo: thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 649) Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii) What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. - Kerry Thornley
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