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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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Lemberg
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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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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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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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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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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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If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
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I had no hope. Yet expectation lived on in me, the last thing she had left behind. What further consummations, mockeries, torments did I still anticipate? I had no idea as I abided in the unshaken belief that the time of cruel wonders was not yet over.
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Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.
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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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There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that I like this situation, but that's the way it goes. The books are being born and then walk around the world, just as children do.
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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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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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