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Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

— Stanisław Lem Peace on Earth (1987)

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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

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Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.

Any attempt to understand the motivation of these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism. Where there are no men, there cannot be motives accessible to men.

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Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

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