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“Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.”
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“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.”
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
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inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
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“Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.”
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
― Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“By the use of the language of sorrow I had for the time being obliterated my sorrow—so powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.”
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
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