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> [All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/all-this-long-human-story-most-passionate-and-tragic-in-the-living/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

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> [Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/barren-barren-and-trivial-are-these-words-but-not-barren-the/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

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> [It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/it-seemed-to-me-that-i-now-saw-the-star-maker-in-two-aspects-as-the/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

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## Other authors on Barren

## More by Olaf Stapledon

> [ No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb \[Earth\] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/no-visiting-angel-or-explorer-from-another-planet-could-have-guessed/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-fact-man-s-career-has-been-less-like-a-mountain-torrent-hurtling/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/i-loathe-the-urchin-s-cruelty-to-the-cat-but-i-will-not-loathe-the/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [“We are bound to hurt one another so much, again and again. we are so terribly different.''Yes,' he said, 'But the more different, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/we-are-bound-to-hurt-one-another-so-much-again-and-again-we-are-so/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/great-are-the-stars-and-man-is-of-no-account-to-them-but-man-is-a/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [Without Satan, with God only, how poor a universe, how trite a music!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/without-satan-with-god-only-how-poor-a-universe-how-trite-a-music/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [I see, indeed I know, that in some sense God is love, and God is wisdom, and God is creative action, yes and God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/i-see-indeed-i-know-that-in-some-sense-god-is-love-and-god-is-wisdom/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [“With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, "My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/with-characteristic-lack-of-false-modesty-john-once-said-to-me-my/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [ \[S\]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/s-ervants-of-darkness-had-no-lasting-joy-in-their-service-in-all-of/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [“The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-truth-of-the-matter-was-something-much-more-subtle-and-tremendous/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/even-when-all-the-worlds-have-frozen-or-exploded-and-all-the-suns/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/the-tibetan-missionaries-in-their-mood-of-bright-confidence/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [“For the former, activity, any kind of activity, was an end in itself; for the latter, activity was but a progress toward the true…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/for-the-former-activity-any-kind-of-activity-was-an-end-in-itself-for/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/we-have-no-government-and-no-laws-if-by-law-is-meant-a-stereotyped/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

> [“In the tide of these wild thoughts we checked our fancy, remembering that only on the rare grains called planets can life gain foothold,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/olaf-stapledon/in-the-tide-of-these-wild-thoughts-we-checked-our-fancy-remembering/)

[Olaf Stapledon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/olaf-stapledon/)

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