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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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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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I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order.
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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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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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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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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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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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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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If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
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Science is turning into a monastery for the Order of Capitulant Friars. Logical calculus is supposed to supersede man as moralist. We submit to the blackmail of the 'superior knowledge' that has the temerity to assert that nuclear war can be, by derivation, a good thing, because this follows from simple arithmetic.
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A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each other.
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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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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 demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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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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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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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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