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“I have come for you, Severian," she said. "No, you are not dreaming.”

“I have come for you, Severian," she said. "No, you are not dreaming.”

“For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.”

“Then I remembered Thecla, who had often been oppressed in much the same way, and how I had read to her.
Taking out her brown book, I opened it at random.”


WOLFE U MAD MAN

“I am much older than you are. Older than you think. If there is one thing I have learned in so many voyages, it is that the dead do not rise, nor the years turn back. What has been and is gone does not come again.”

“I can see it troubles you . . . what happened today."
"I thought it went well," I said.”