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Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
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It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly the adults went too far, tried too hard, and the children could see through their game.
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If you could make them feel as you can make me feel, then perhaps they could forgive you.
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Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality. My wife. My friend. My lover.
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all the others knew that he had a mind, knew that he was capable of understanding ideas. What will new people think when they see me? They'll see a body that's already atrophying, hunched over; they'll see me walk with a shuffling gait; they'll watch me use my hands like paws, clutching a spoon like a three-year-old; they'll hear my thick, half-intelligible speech; and they'll assume, they'll know, that such a person cannot possibly underst..
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In the end it was only Peter who had something he could say from the heart. "Am I the only one here who sees something of himself in the man who's lying inside this box?" No one had an answer for him, either yes or no."
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Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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Isaac Asimov's Foundation
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?
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Only a fool can't be fooled.
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She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
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I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right.
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You are mine, but you are not mine. I am yours, but you hardly know it.
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He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed.
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Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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Justice could be cruel, and crueler yet necessity, but mercy was the cruelest thing of all.
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A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.
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The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift.A glorious gift.
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When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.
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How is clean, painless nonexistence any worse than clean, painless death?
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.
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All children are manipulators.
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She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
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You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.
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Honesty always sounds like impudence to the vain and stupid.
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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
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