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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
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I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold…
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is…
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So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one…
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star,…
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been…
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and…
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of…
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
— John James Audubon
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does…
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the…
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There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
— Lord Byron
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Lingering labors come to naught.
— Robert Southwell
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Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.
— Walter Hilton
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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy task. .…
— Alfred de Vigny
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
— William Blake
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
— Joseph Joubert
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Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.
— Victoria Principal
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