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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

"One can find so many pains when the rain is falling."

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

"When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it."

"Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy."

"There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness."

"When you hear love calling you, don't pretend to be deaf."
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"One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events."

"Above all, TRIBES is fun, and even kind of sexy... in that every round features an Opportunity for Reproduction, which is the main aim of the game, as it is in most of Nature."

"Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us."

"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on."

"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"

"Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones."
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