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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

— David Zindell The Wild (1995)

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You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

War in Heaven (1998)

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

The Wild (1995)

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

War in Heaven (1998)

Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?

The Broken God (1992)

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

War in Heaven (1998)

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