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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."
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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."
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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
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"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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"I think escapism is really important."
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"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."
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"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."
Art
"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
Nature
"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
History
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
Adolescence
"Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference, we should each be treated with appropriate respect."
Philosophy
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Technology
"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."
Answers
"There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence-or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them."
Science
"But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a long and busy life, he sat before the keyboard and filled the air with his beloved Bach. Perhaps he was deceiving himself, perhaps this was some merciful trick of the mind but now it seemed to Jan that this what he had always wished to do. His secret ambition had at last dared to emerge into the full light of consciousness. Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world."
Art
"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
God
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