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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

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I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.

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They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.

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Freedom is never very safe.

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To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

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Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [...]

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You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

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Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

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For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.

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To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

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When we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before.

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We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

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Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience.

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Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

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We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

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He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

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To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do.

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Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.

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It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

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When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

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Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

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