Doris Lessing - Shikasta (1979)

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This is a catastrophic universe, always; and subject to sudden reversals, upheavals, changes, cataclysms, with joy never anything but the song of substance under pressure forced into new forms and shapes.

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For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars "Well," he would say, "if we blow ourselves up, there's plenty more where we came from!"

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The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

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We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

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We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate.

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It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this may strike someone perhaps ten thousand years later.

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Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

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Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

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