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Love is a false synonym for propagation, as the soul is a wish fulfillment creation growing out of self-preservation.

— Henry Kuttner No Boundaries (1955)

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When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Stephen Court in The Creature from Beyond Infinity (1940)

I never understood the ultimate answer. That was beyond me.

The Time Axis (1949)

A casual eye might have seen nothing extraordinary in Wade as he moved lithely across the meadow toward the Thunderbug.

People seem to like new things—if they weren’t too new, if they didn’t seem to point the way to Change.

Bypass to Otherness (1961)

Man has the hardest job of all, the job of making decisions on incomplete data.

No Boundaries (1955)

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And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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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)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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