Quotes from The Book of Skulls — Robert Silverberg
born 1935 United States
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The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.
The Book of Skulls (1972)
Morality after the fact, said Eli from the rear, is worse than no morality at all.
The Book of Skulls (1972)
Contrast is everything, Ned said. Incongruity is essential. The secret of art lies in attaining a sense of proper juxtapositions, and what is religion if not a category of art?
The Book of Skulls (1972)
Why should that be, LuAnn? Why should we be put into such a wonderful world and then have everything taken away from us? God’s will? No, LuAnn, God is love, and God wouldn’t have done such a cruel thing to us, so therefore there is no God, there’s only death, Death, whom we must reject.
The Book of Skulls (1972)