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Until I started using the Internet, I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world.

— Stanisław Lem Attributed

Dopóki nie skorzystałem z Internetu, nie wiedziałem, że na świecie jest tylu idiotów.

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If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently.

Solaris (1961)

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way.

Any attempt to understand the motivation of these occurrences is blocked by our own anthropomorphism. Where there are no men, there cannot be motives accessible to men.

Solaris (1961)

Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

His Master's Voice (1968)

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

Solaris (1961)

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