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"What is a human being, then?" ...
"A seed."
"A … seed?"
"An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

— David Zindell The Broken God (1992)

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You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

War in Heaven (1998)

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

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In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

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Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?

The Broken God (1992)

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

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