I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. - Dan Simmons
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.
- Dan Simmons
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it… - Dan Simmons
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it…
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intel… - Dan Simmons
Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another intel…
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love. - Dan Simmons
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. - Dan Simmons
No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have p… - Dan Simmons
There is no doubt that I have discovered the ultimate in stagnant human societies. The Bikura have realized the human dream of immortality and have p…
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter. - Dan Simmons
Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. - Dan Simmons
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and … - Dan Simmons
In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and …
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