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To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for a foe that is not coming is foolish and sinful. My life has been a waste.
Robert Silverberg
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.
Robert Silverberg
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.
Robert Silverberg
I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?
Robert Silverberg
I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.
Robert Silverberg
Love of others begins with love of self.
Robert Silverberg
We are born by accident into a purely random universe.
Robert Silverberg
Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
Robert Silverberg
Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.
Robert Silverberg
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
Robert Silverberg
Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.
Robert Silverberg
I don't know, Mattison thinks. That's cool. I don't know, and I hereby give myself permission not to know, and to hell with it.
Robert Silverberg
This isn't just consulting work, Haig. It means going into politics.” "So?” "What do I need it for?” "Nobody needs anything except a little food and water now and then. The rest is preferences.
Robert Silverberg
Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.
Robert Silverberg
The cages are ready in case any of the enemies are captured.” "You mean us?” "Yes. Enemies.” Muller's eyes glittered with sudden paranoid fury; it was alarming how easily he slipped from rational discourse to that cold blaze. "Homo sapiens. The most dangerous, the most ruthless, the most despicable beast in the universe!” "You say it as if you believe it.
Robert Silverberg
Stand near me and you get sick. Why? It reminds you that you're an animal too, because you get a full dose of me. So we go round and round in our endless feedback. You hate me because you learn things about your own soul by getting near me. And I hate you because you must draw back from me. What I am, you see, is a plague carrier, and the plague I carry is the truth. My message is that it's a lucky thing for humanity that we're shut up each in his own skull. Because if we had even a little drop of telepathy, even the blurry nonverbal thing I've got, we'd be unable to stand each other. Human society would be impossible.
Robert Silverberg
Architecturally, the town looked like the worst of all possible cheap-and-sleazy tract developments, but the psychic texture it projected was even more depressing, more like that of one of those ghastly retirement communities, one of the innumerable Leisure Worlds or Sun Manors, those childless joyless retreats where colonies of that other kind of living dead collected to await the last trumpet.
Robert Silverberg
All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.
Robert Silverberg
All my life,” said Schweiz, "has been a quest for plausible reasons to believe in what I know to be irrational.
Robert Silverberg
The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice.
Robert Silverberg
It did not seem at all improbable to McCulloch now. The infinite fullness of time brings about everything, he thought: even intelligent lobsters, even a divine octopus.
Robert Silverberg
She loaned him books. Worlds were revealed to him: worlds piled on worlds, worlds without end.
Robert Silverberg
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