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    Dan Simmons
    “Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
    tags: language
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    Gregory Hill
    “The real reality is there, but everything you KNOW about “it” is in your mind and your
    to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and YOU ARE THE ARTIST”
    ― Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger
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    Virginia Woolf
    “For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment? That we survive the shock at all is only possible because the past shelters us on one side and the future on another.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: present-moment, time
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
    tags: inspirational
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “It's the love of right lures men to wrong.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
    tags: ethics-and-moral-philosophy
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
    tags: interpersonal-relationships
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
    tags: philosophy
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    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
    tags: action, words
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    David Gaider
    “A bard must know history so she does not repeat it. She tells the tales but is never part of them. She watches but remains above what she sees. She inspires passions in others and rules her own.”
    ― David Gaider, The Stolen Throne
    tags: philosophy
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    Virginia Woolf
    “All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: obsession
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    Virginia Woolf
    “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: clichés, dignity, double-standards, empowerment, feminism, gender, hypocrisy, intelligence, men, misogyny, self-determination, social-norms, stereotypes, thought, women
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: poems, poetry, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing. ”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: books, reading, writing
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Virginia Woolf
    “But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: time
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    Virginia Woolf
    “By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
    tags: dreams, life, truth
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Dan Simmons
    “Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterpoint of a universe hardwired to indifference.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: consciousness, evolution, indifference
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    Dan Simmons
    “Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
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    Dan Simmons
    “... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
    tags: arrogance
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    Dan Simmons
    “Its hard to die. Harder to live”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: dying, living
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    Dan Simmons
    “In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
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    Dan Simmons
    “... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: gift, pain, universe
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    Dan Simmons
    “The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer”
    ― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
    tags: cancer, humankind, natural-order
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    Dan Simmons
    “I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Endymion
    tags: love, time-travel
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    Dan Simmons
    “The day is perfect and I hate it for being so.”
    ― Dan Simmons, Hyperion
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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    Douglas Adams
    “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: humour
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