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If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
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For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.
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Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.
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We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
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Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.
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I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
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I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.
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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
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Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
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I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions of men does not mean anything at all, in any adequate sense of the word.
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