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Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?

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Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.

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In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

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

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You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

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Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

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But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...

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What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

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The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

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All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

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Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.

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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

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Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?

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That was the true terror of war, that often one had to accept danger and simply wait to live or die.

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Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.

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Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart's deep love.

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"All living things are afraid to die."
"No, you're exactly wrong, the only truly alive beings are those unafraid to die."

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A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

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For us humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down.

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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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Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

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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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This was the true nature of consciousness and the meaning of matter, that ultimately both were one substance without cause or control outside itself.

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For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

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