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Stark did not like them. There was a touch of madness in them, born of the long dark and the too-long-held faith.

— Leigh Brackett The Ginger Star (1974)

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The man who doesn’t fear, doesn’t live long. I fear everything.

The Ginger Star (1974)

“Will it always stay like this?”
“Nothing,” said Hostetter, “ever stays always like anything.”

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it.

The Long Tomorrow (1955)

Invisibility is a condition of godhead. If folk could see them, they would know the truth, and the Lords Protector would cease to be divine.

The Ginger Star (1974)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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