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Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

— David Zindell Neverness (1988)

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

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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.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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