More quotes by Gene Wolfe
Experience is a wonderful teacher, but one whose lessons come too late.
Paradoxes explain everything. Since they do, they cannot be explained.
An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith.
As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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