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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
Essayist
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Philosopher
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Lemberg
Austria
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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 felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
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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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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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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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Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
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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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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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The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
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It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.
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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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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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No one reads if someone does read, he doesn't understand if he understands, he immediately forgets.
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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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A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.
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The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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