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The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

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Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

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I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

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It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

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