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At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

— Roger Zelazny The Last Defender of Camelot (1980)

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Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today, filled with nostalgia and fear of the future.

The Dream Master (1966)

Anyone who rushes toward an unknown peril simply to satisfy a desire for excitement is a fool.

Today We Choose Faces (1973)

There comes a time in the history of all bureaucracies when they must inevitably parody their own functions.

Isle of the Dead (1969)

To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.

Lord of Light (1967)

Then I could turn around and justify that, by saying that it isn’t really paranoia if there really are people out to get you.

Isle of the Dead (1969)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love (1973)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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