David Zindell quotes

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever... (David Zindell)
To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?
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In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.
David Zindell
All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.
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You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.
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The secret of life is more life.
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Faith - what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.
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What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.
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Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained. (David Zindell)
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.
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For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.
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The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.
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I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.
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For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.
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Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.
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Eternity and pain, pain and eternity - they are the only two things of which the universe is made.
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The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.
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Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?
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What is a human being, then?" ... "A seed." "A ... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. (David Zindell)
A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
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Do you want to know the secret of life? Bardo will tell you the secret of life: it's not the amount of time we have, despite what I've just said. No it's not quantity and it's not even quality. It's variety.
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Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.
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The elite of the universal religions have always substituted belief in the Infinite for the experience of it. We all need God - but only in small and measured doses. Who can look upon the burning bush and not be destroyed in its flames? Who can bear the heaven and hell of each moment blazing in time? Who can shine like a star? And so, for all but a few of the manswarm, the rare ones who are truly human, it is better to glimpse such a miracle through a dark glass or to grasp it through words only.
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