Dan Simmons - Endymion (1996)

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How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

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I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

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Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

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Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

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The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

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If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

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Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

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Life is brutal that way... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

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We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

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Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

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Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

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If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

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Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

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Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

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A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

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