Stanislaw Lem Quotes

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• We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
• A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
• To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
• You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
• There are no answers, only choices,
• Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed…
• When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so…
• Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here we are faced with a…
• Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
• Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the…
• Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
• Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not…
• If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
• The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.
• Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse…
• Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of…
• Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled…
• I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas…
• In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways. Our symptotes no longer out of phase, We shall encounter, counting,…
• Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in…

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