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Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

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Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

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We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

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Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are an epopt alwa...more

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We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like th...more