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The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.
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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Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
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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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Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme.
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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 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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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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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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...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
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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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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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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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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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I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
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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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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 man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.
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