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One Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
- 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…
- Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled…
- 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…
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought…
- So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates…
- No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
- How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?
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