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He had acted on an impulse, with no thought at all. The girl had asked protection and here she had protection, here nothing in the world ever could get at her.

— Clifford D. Simak Way Station (1963)

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These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

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There was so much knowledge in the galaxy and he knew so little of it, understood so little of the little that he knew.

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The wolf was smiling at him, and he had never known that a wolf could smile.

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How strange it is, he thought, how so many senseless things shape our destiny.

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He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand.

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