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Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end!
Durdane series (1971)
It is foolish to be outraged by a fact of nature.
Durdane series (1971)
“Bah,” muttered Sul. “I am unable to chop logic with you; you have the superior sleight with words.”
Durdane series (1971)
My point is this: no outsider can effectively organize a group of experts; they must organize themselves.
Durdane series (1971)
Your vision exceeds your practicality: often the case with a musician.
Durdane series (1971)
Which is better: cheap submission or expensive independence?
Durdane series (1971)
I don’t care a fig whether or not you are offended.
Durdane series (1971)
Justice, a human invention, is as protean as the race itself, and varies from canton to canton. The traveler must be wary lest he contravene some unfamiliar local ordinance.
Durdane series (1971)
Are musicians unlike other men? Beget and forget, that’s how it goes.
Durdane series (1971)
I know now what I should have known every moment of my life; that unless you help yourself, you die a slave. The fact is basic.
Durdane series (1971)
I am not the man for this sort of business; I detest puzzlement.
Durdane series (1971)
“I have not been tamed,” said Finnerack. “I have only been enslaved.”
Durdane series (1971)
The cantons of Shant were alike only in their mutual distrust. Each regarded as Universal Principles its own customs, costumes, jargon, and mannerisms and considered all else eccentricity.
Durdane series (1971)
If the study of human interactions could become a science, I suspect that an inviolate axiom might be discovered to this effect: Every social disposition creates a disparity of advantages. Further: Every innovation designed to correct the disparities, no matter how altruistic in concept, works only to create a new and different set of disparities.
Durdane series (1971)
Drowsing in the warmth, Etzwane could find no occasion for haste; indeed, the prospect of docking the boat and stepping ashore aroused in him a curious mood of melancholy. The adventure would then be definitely finished; for all its misery and black despair, he had lived to his utmost capacity; he had augmented and enriched his life.
Durdane series (1971)
“I consider myself a fortunate men, more so than most. I have often wondered why it was given to me to live the life of Kyril Fabrache.”
“These reflections, at one time or another, have occurred to all of us,” said Ifness, “but unless we are agreed upon a religion of gradated reincarnation, the question is ingenuous.”
Durdane series (1971)
“Where are the Red Devil bones?”
“Not far distant: beyond the ridge. Can you not sense the presence of so much death?”
Ifness responded in a measured voice: “An intellect in full control of itself unfortunately must sacrifice that receptivity which distinguishes the primitive mentality. This is an evolutionary step I have, on the whole, been happy to make.”
Durdane series (1971)