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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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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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The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.
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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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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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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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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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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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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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The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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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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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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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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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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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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Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.
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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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