"Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing……" — Olaf Stapledon
"Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the dark void, like an infinitely tenuous smoke rising from an extinguished fire. Upon these motes, these gigantic worlds, the ultimate populations had created here and there with their artificial lighting a pale glow, invisible even from the innermost ring of lifeless planets."
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Olaf Stapledon
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13 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a…
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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the…
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention…
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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
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My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of…
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and…
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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