Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy, #1)
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curiosity. It might mean death, but what a scaffold!
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he knew nothing yet well enough to see it: you cannot see things till you know roughly what they are.
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he must leave a deed on his memory instead of one more broken dream.
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But each moment my opinion about sanity changed. Had it ever been more than a convention—a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?