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Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power.

— Samuel R. Delany The Jewels of Aptor (1962)

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Oh, for the rebirth of an educational system where understanding was an essential part of knowledge.

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“As time progresses,” Lump stated, “people learn. That’s the only hope.”

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Bear in mind that the novel—no matter how intimate, psychological, or subjective—is always a historical projection of its own time.

Nova (1968)

What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.

Neveryóna (1983)

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