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Quotes from The Man in the Maze — Robert Silverberg

born 1935 United States

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The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

He did not consider the possibility of his own death. At his age, death was still something that happened to other people.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

Forget it. No, don’t forget it. Don’t forget anything. Take a lesson from it: collect all the data before shouting nonsense.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

I have lost my sense of a universe. They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.

The Man in the Maze (1969)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Silverberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.