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Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I'm
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Si es amor por una mujer o una imitacion androide, es sexo. Despierte y cuestioneselo, Deckard. Queria acostarse con un androide femenino, nada mas y nada menos.
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maintained his stance of cynicism, could not speak from grief; the two of them drove along and then Kevin slapped him on the shoulder, which is the only avenue open to men to show love for each other.
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he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know.
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Does this cure your depression?" he asked her. "It cures mine." Iran said, "It certainly does cure my depression. Now we can admit to everybody that the sheep's false." "No need to do that," he said cautiously. "But we can," Iran persisted. "See, now we have nothing to hide; what we've always wanted has come true. It's a dream!"
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Oh no," she said, still smiling; her eyes poured over with light, that of compassion. She understood how he felt, that this was not an impulse only. But the answer was still no, and, he knew, it would always be;"
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The universe will never be extinguished because just when the darkness seems to have smothered all, to be truly transcendent, the new seeds of light are reborn in the very depths. That is the Way. When the seed falls, it falls into the earth, into the soil. And beneath, out of sight, it comes to life. "An"
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I chose God over the material universe.
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But she looked--smaller. As if something in her had dwindled away, as if she had dried up. It was almost--age. Yet not quite. Could their separation have done this much damage? He doubted it. His wife, since he had seen her last, had become frail, and he did not like this; despite his animosity he felt concern.
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God is God of history and of nations. Also of nature. Originally Yahweh was probably a volcanic deity. But he periodically enters history, the best example being when he intervened to bring the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt and to the Promised Land. They were shepherds and accustomed to freedom; it was terrible for them to be making bricks. And the Pharaoh had them gathering the straw as well and still being required to meet their quota of bri..
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What do you want? Egg in your beer?
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02098ae
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Do you know what the true basis of political power is? Not guns or troops but the ability to get others to do what you want them to do. By whatever means are appropriate.
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They know a million tricks, those novelists.
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Because when the death-dealing powers of ice and cold reach your loins, your breasts and hips and buttocks as well as your heart--it was already deep in her heart, surely--then there will be no more woman. And you won't survive that. No matter what I or any man chooses to do.
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We cannot enter the monstrous schizophrenic morass of Nazi internecine intrigue; our minds cannot adapt.
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Always this barrier, this impossibility of getting through. This time he did not waste his time trying; he simply went on stroking her, thinking, It'll be on my conscience, whatever happens to her. And she knows it, too. So she's absolved of the burden of responsibility, and that, for her, is the worst thing possible. Too bad, he thought, I wasn't able to make love to her.
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Don't pause and be philosophical, because from a philosophical standpoint it's dreary. For us both." He"
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It's not just the drive. They're right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night." "Who are, dear?" "Robots selling things. As soon as I set down the ship. Robots and visual-audio ads. They dig right into a man's brain. They follow people around until they die."
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Smiling at her the boy said, "Games, then? Would that be better? There are events that I must shape. I must arouse fire that burns, that sears. Scripture says: For He is like a refiner's fire. And Scripture also says: And who can abide the day of His coming? I say, however, that it will be more than this; I say: The day comes, glowing like a furnace; all the arrogant and the evil-doers shall be chaff, and that day when it comes shall set th..
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He fixed things--clocks, refrigerators, vidsenders and destinies.
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This man is different. He can fix anything, do anything. He doesn't work with knowledge, with science--the classified accumulation of facts. He knows nothing. It's not in his head, a form of learning. He works by intuition--his power is in his hands, not his head. Jack-of-all-trades. His hands! Like a painter, an artist. In his hands--and he cuts across our lives like a knife-blade.
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over beside Mr. Baynes, General Tedeki said in a soft voice, "You witness the man's despair. He, you see, was no doubt raised as a Buddhist. Even if not formally, the influence was there. A culture in which no life is to be taken; all lives holy." Mr. Baynes nodded. "He will recover his equilibrium," General Tedeki continued. "In time. Right now he has no standpoint by which he can view and comprehend his act. That book will help him, for i..
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Sheep are funny," the Whitlock said. "Now, you look at how they behave when you throw some grub over the fence to them, such as corn stalks. Why, they'll spot that from a mile away." The Whitlock chuckled. "They're smart when it comes to what concerns them. And maybe that helps us see what true smartness is; it isn't having read a lot of big books, or knowing long words...it's being able to spot what's to our advantage. It's got to be usefu..
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Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were.
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I don't think anyone creates a fake universe," Herb said, "since it isn't there." "But you're saying something is causing us to see a universe that doesn't exist. Who is this someone?" He said, "Satan." Cocking his head, Elias eyed him. "It's a way of seeing the real world," Herb said. "An occluded way. A dreamlike way. A hypnotized, asleep way. The nature of world undergoes a perceptual change; actually it is the perceptions that change, n..
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Better a live dog than a dead prince
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to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.
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We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally innocent.
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The Public School, then, was right to eject a child who did not learn. Because what the child was learning was not merely facts or the basis of a money-making or even useful career. It went much deeper. The child learned that certain things in the culture around him were worth preserving at any cost. His values were fused with some objective human enterprise. And so he himself became a part of the tradition handed down to him; he maintained..
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am an outsider in my own country.
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Death at each moment, one avenue which is open to us at any point.
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The TV set shouted, "--duplicates the halcyon days of the pre-Civil War Southern states! Either as body servants or tireless field hands, the custom-tailored humanoid robot--designed specifically for YOUR UNIQUE NEEDS, FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE--given to you on your arrival absolutely free, equipped fully, as specified by you before your departure from Earth; this loyal, trouble-free companion in the greatest, boldest adventure contrived by man..
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life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon her would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions.
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most horrid sound in the world, that of the once-was: alive in the past, perishing in the present, a corpse made of dust in the future.
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The guilty, he reflected as he drove amid the heavy late-afternoon traffic as carefully as possible, may flee when no one pursues--he
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Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.
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In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love. The intimacy is still there, even though the love element has disappeared. So a will to power, a struggle for domination, comes into being.
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There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.
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Jesus Christ!" I said. "You can't sleep with a bishop!" "I already have," Kirsten said."
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His thoughts," Helio said, "are as clear as plastic to me, and mine likewise to him. We are both prisoners, Mister, in a hostile land." At that Arnie laughed loud and long. "Truth always amuses the ignorant," Helio said."
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Death makes me mad. Human and animal suffering make me mad; whenever one of my cats dies I curse God and I mean it; I feel fury at him. I'd like to get him here where I could interrogate him, tell him that I think the world is screwed up, that man didn't sin and fall but was pushed -- which is bad enough -- but was then sold the lie that he is basically sinful, which I know he is not.
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Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn't worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty an..
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Philip K. Dick |
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Maybe there's a machine in Berkeley that will save me, too. Perhaps my problems can be automated out of existence.
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Well, that's marriage these days. Legalized hate.
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