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They seemed to hang from a vast height, as in Rembrandt’s “Adoration of the Shepherds,” and if here they were looped back to show, not the holy family but one grotesque old man, yet adoring wonder was not absent, for Isaac had never grown
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“Like all creators, he knew well that strange feeling of movement within the spirit, comparable only to the first movement of the child within the womb, which causes the victim to say perhaps with excitement, perhaps with exasperation or exhaustion, “There is a new poem, a new picture, a new symphony coming, heaven help me.” The movement had been unusually strong when he first knew about this clock.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“He did not consciously tell himself that it was his eternity but he had a confused idea that the dark would not entirely get him while the pulse beat on in this clock.”
― The Dean's Watch
― The Dean's Watch
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
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“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
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