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Dreams, she said. Broken dreams are bad enough. But the dream that has no hope...the dream that is doomed long before it’s broken, that’s the worst of all.

— Clifford D. Simak Time and Again (1951)

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

City (1952)

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

Way Station (1963)

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

Highway of Eternity (1986)

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

Way Station (1963)

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

Way Station (1963)

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Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

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