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Quotes by Stanisław Lem

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Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
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Good books tell the truth, even when they’re about things that never have been and never will be. They’re truthful in a different way.
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We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don’t know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is.
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines..
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I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
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Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.
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He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
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The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.
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