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“We can know nothing about what is outside us, if we overlook ourselves,' he thinks now, 'the universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.”
― Mr Palomar
― Mr Palomar
“Each individual is made up of what he has lived and the way he lived it, and no one can take this away from him. Anyone who has lived in suffering is always made of that suffering; if they try to take it away from him, he is no longer himself.”
― Mr Palomar
― Mr Palomar
“All is calm or tends towards calm, even hurricanes, earthquakes, the eruption of volcanoes.”
― Mr Palomar
― Mr Palomar
“The center of gravity of Lem’s books is ethics.” This is Le Guin’s highest praise; and it establishes the central values of her fiction, and her criticism.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
“It seems to me that most moments in a life can be called interludes: following something, preceding something. Carrying us forward, with our needs and nature and desires, as we move through our time. It also seems to me that it is foolish to try to comprehend all that happens to us, let alone understand the world.”
― Written on the Dark
― Written on the Dark
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