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61 " I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss. "
― Dan Simmons , The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4)
62 " ... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power. "
― Dan Simmons , Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
63 " The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation. "
64 " So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd "
― Dan Simmons
65 " I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space. "
― Dan Simmons , Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
66 " At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. "
67 " The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. "
68 " For seven centuries the existence of Grand Unification Theories and hyperstring post-quantum physics and Core-given understanding of the universe as self-contained and boundless, without Big Bang singularities or corresponding endpoints, had pretty much eliminated any role of God—primitively anthropomorphic or sophisticatedly post-Einsteinian—even as a caretaker or pre-Creation former of rules. The modern universe, as machine and man had come to understand it, needed no Creator; in fact, allowed no Creator. Its rules allowed very little tinkering and no major revisions. It had not begun and would not end, beyond cycles of expansion and contraction as regular and self-regulated as the seasons on Old Earth "
― Dan Simmons , The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
69 " The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall. "
70 " The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer "
71 " My intellect was my greatest vanity. "
72 " The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth,” recited Orphu, “would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is. "
― Dan Simmons , Ilium (Ilium, #1)
73 " Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt "
74 " L'ondata divenne una massa urlante di rivoltosi; in quel momento, la somma dei quozienti d'intelligenza era molto inferiore a quella del più modesto componente singolo. La folla ha passioni, non cervello. "
75 " Haven’t you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are—at this instant—poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago? "
76 " We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God’s wide domain would carry the memory "
77 " It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another. "
78 " Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. "
79 " After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. "
80 " In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love. "