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Life is a kind of flower, its blooms dying but exquisite.

— Barry N. Malzberg

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There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.

Beyond Apollo (1972)

Great recrimination demands a large subject, will invent one if it does not exist.

Tripping with the Alchemist (2003)

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

Corridors (1982)

…as indifferent to the meaning and central absurdity of the situation as swallows in a cathedral.

Tripping with the Alchemist (2003)

“Events,” I say to the Captain, “events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

Beyond Apollo (1972)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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