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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.
Stanislaw Lem
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Stanislaw Lem
Age: 84 †
Born: 1921
Born: September 12
Died: 2006
Died: March 27
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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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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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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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I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
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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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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 don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?
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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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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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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.
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I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.
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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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We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us but we can't accept it for what it is.
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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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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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
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