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Patience is a narcotic for the weak.

— Edgar Pangborn A Mirror for Observers (1954)

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I learned some years back that human nature is volatile stuff in a world full of lighted matches.

A Mirror for Observers (1954)

If you’re interested in ethics, you could do worse than think in terms of geological time.

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One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

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I notice men themselves have never invented a god capable of understanding them.

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One would think that the mere shortness of life would be a reminder that to destroy beauty is to destroy one’s own self too.

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