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Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.
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I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!
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For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone?
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'Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.
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A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.
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There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.
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Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.
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There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.
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It was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.
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Science has only increased the area of the unknown. And if there is a god, her name is Mystery.
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Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
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The greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.
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I know only too well from a personal experience that is number one on my list of things to be forgotten.
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Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.
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What have I always told you about Soldiers? The bigger the gripe, the smaller the cause! It is infallible!
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Poets are wiser than anyone because they're the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time.
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Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past's mistakes and the future's fears.
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Paul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.
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What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself's the beginning of all love.
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Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.
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What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?
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It's this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos — and don't tell me that isn't in the cards! — masquerading as benign omniscient authority.
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The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.
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There is an inescapable imperative about certain industrial developments. If there is not a safe road of advance, then a dangerous one will invariably be taken.
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The Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes — it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Fritz Leiber
Born:
December 24, 1910
Died:
September 5, 1992
(aged 81)
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