The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eye...
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The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
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And he listened to me. That was the thing he did, as if he was trying to fill himself up with all the sound he could hear.
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There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.
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We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one....
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people fee...
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We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and ac...
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We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civiliz...
