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“I shall know soon.” I hesitated. “I shall know if all these adventurings, all these ordeals, have been meaningless or not. Man struggles in the belief that he can, by dint of perseverance, affect his own destiny. And all those efforts, I think, lead to nothing but ruin.

— Michael Moorcock The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)

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The albino reflected on the power of the human mind to build a fantasy and then defend it with complete determination as a reality.

The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

Somewhere you can hear them whimpering, as if the evidence of their own mortality were emphasised by the knowledge of other people’s happiness.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.

To Rescue Tanelorn (1962)

Everything dies eventually—but that shouldn’t stop us enjoying life while it is there to be enjoyed.

The Wrecks of Time aka The Rituals of Infinity (1967)

Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.

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