Age and illness made one a dualist.
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Zum Autor"Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part."
"Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words."
"What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice."
"Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!"
"You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
"«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said."