David Zindell - Human Quotes

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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

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The true human being... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

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The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God — but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star? And so, for all but a few of the manswarm, the rare ones who are truly human, it is better to glimpse such a miracle through a dark glass or to grasp it through words only.

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I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

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To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?

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"What is a human being, then?"...
"A seed."
"A … seed?"
"An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

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