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He used a name for himself, true, but we played at Romance, and this is a game where truth is a bagatelle.

— Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy (1983)

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My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)

Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life.

Maske: Thaery (1976)

Now, as to the persistence of superstition, only an impoverished mind considers itself the repository of absolute knowledge.

Future Tense (1964)

“Everyone is the same,” he told himself. “Anxious to arrive and, when they leave, wondering why they came.”

Demon Princes (1964)

“The crime,” said the Jacynth softly, “is abstract and fundamental: the innate depravity of extinguishing life.”

To Live Forever (1956)

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