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Then I knew that the last test of sanity had failed me, for it was no longer possible to tell the unreal from the real. The last test fails when the illusion moves into life itself and you can touch and feel and handle the commercial vision as if she were the real woman. There was no defense any more.

— Henry Kuttner Ahead of Time (1953)

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

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I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

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