David Zindell - Neverness (1988)

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

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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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Do you want to know the secret of life? Bardo will tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have, despite what I've just said. No it's not quantity and it's not even quality. It's variety.

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

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

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

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

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

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