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Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and t...more

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You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you...more

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When we were alive, they told us that when we died we'd go to heaven. And they said that heaven was a place of joy and glory and we would spend eterni...more

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We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

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One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, o...more

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You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

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That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

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When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

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Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. A...more

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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, an...more