Stanisław Lem - Time Quotes

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I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation. Since she had gone, that was all that remained. I did not know what achievements, what mockery, even what tortures still awaited me. I knew nothing, and I persisted in the faith that the time of cruel miracles was not past.

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

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Tarkovsky reminds me of a sergeant from the time of Turgenev — he is very pleasant and extremely prepossessing and at the same time visionary and elusive. One cannot "catch" him anywhere because he is always at a slightly different place already. This is simply the type of person he is. When I understood that I stopped bothering. This director cannot be reshaped anymore, and first of all one cannot convince him of anything as he is going to recast everything in his "own way" no matter what.

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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.

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Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious.... Space is, after all, solid, monolithic.... Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.

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