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Then they died.
And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.

— Poul Anderson The Enemy Stars (1959)

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For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.

The Long Way Home (1955)

Man’s duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.

The People of the Wind (1973)

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

The Corridors of Time (1965)

Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.

Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.

The Broken Sword (1954)

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