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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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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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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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What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?' 'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
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I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
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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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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
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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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Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
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The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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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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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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Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life yet here we are faced with a prevaricated truth and an authentic fake, hence a thing that is at once the truth and a lie.
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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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Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.
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This is another lie. We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us but we can't accept it for what it is. We are searching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, a civilization superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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