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But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.

— Robert Charles Wilson Darwinia (1998)

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The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.

Darwinia (1998)

We’ll do what life always does—defy expectations.

Spin (2005)

Strange, isn’t it, how people cling most desperately to a thing when it becomes least useful to them?

This Peaceable Land, or, The Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beecher Stowe (2009)

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind—and some you carry with you, world without end.

Vortex (2011)

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes—you'll see.

Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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