Poul Anderson - Life Quotes

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We need a reserve of life, every kind of life, he explained. Today for the spirit—a glimpse of space and green. Tomorrow for survival, flat-out survival.

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Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.

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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

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There really wasn't much in a man's life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.

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You are much too kind, said Holger, overwhelmed.
Nay. Alfric waved his hand. You mortals know not how tedious undying life can become, and how gladly a challenge such as this is greeted. 'Tis I should thank you.

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Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.

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Life isn't a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn't necessarily get the princess. So what? Who'd want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?

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