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““He gazed out to sea for a moment, then added, “One should never mistake pattern … for meaning.””

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“It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.”

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“There's something very... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with…

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“[I]t was really only in the generation or two before hers that the idea had started to traverse the spectrum of likelihood in the…

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“Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.”

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“I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being…

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“We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point the way to future success. But…

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“just one more species, which would grow and expand and then, finding the plateau phase all non-suicidal species eventually arrived at, settle down.”

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“Darkness came like a black flag waved over the canyon, drawing back the grayness from the shores of the city, then pushing forward the…

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“Then the machine started to reel off infant-mortality rates and life-expectancy figures, sex ratios, types of diseases and their prevalence in the various strata…

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“he saw that which cannot be seen; a concept; the adaptive, self-seeking urge to survive, to bend everything that can be reached to that…

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“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

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“Tell me, what is happiness?” “Happiness? Happiness... is to wake up, on a bright spring morning, after an exhausting first night spent with a…

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