"The night stared me in the face, amorphous,……" — Stanislaw Lem
"The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass."
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53 Quotes by Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem has 53 quotes on this site.
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We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.
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A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
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You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
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There are no answers, only choices,
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Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible,…
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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up…
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Either something is authentic or it is unauthentic, it is either false or true, make-believe or spontaneous life; yet here…
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Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery,…
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Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.
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Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who…
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More Amorphous Quotes
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from…
— John Dewey
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It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous…
— John Maurice Clark
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And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous…
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for…
— Gwen Ifill
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The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or…
— Paul Vixie
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Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning…
— Laurance Labadie
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous.…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware…
— Seth Godin
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