The Palace of Love Quotes

“The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“There is too much knowledge already in the world; we use facts as crutches, logic is deceit. I know a single system of communication: the declaiming of poetry.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“Approximately fifteen hundred years ago, it became evident that existing laws and systems of public safety could not protect the human race from four bland and insidious dangers: First, universal and compulsory dosage of drugs, tonics, toners, conditioners, stimulants and prophylactics administered through the public water supply. Second, the development of genetic sciences, which allowed and encouraged various agencies to alter the basic character of Man, according to contemporary biological and political theory. Third, psychological control through media of public information. Fourth, the proliferation of machinery and systems which in the name of progress and social welfare tended to make enterprise, imagination, creative toil and the subsequent satisfactions obsolete if not extinct.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“Like Earth, Navarth was old, irresponsible and melancholy, full of a dangerous mirth.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love

“Navarth looked off across the water. “Do you realize that a crook of my finger disturbs the farthest star? That every human thought disturbs the psychic parasphere?”

“This is the source of your knowledge—psychic perturbations?”

“As good a method as any other.”
― Jack Vance, The Palace of Love